NEIBA Bestseller List

For the week ending
Sunday, August 2nd, 2026  

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
3. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648
4. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
5. Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy #3)
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385550505
6. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430
7. Country People
Daniel Mason, Random House, $30.00, 9798217197453
8. The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $30.00, 9798217059959
9. John of John 
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194
10. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
11. Ransom
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32.00, 9780063384224
12. Beginning Middle End
Valeria Luiselli, Knopf, $35.00, 9798217208319
13. Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385551977
14. The Midnight Train
Matt Haig, Viking, $30.00, 9780593833377
15. Sea of Charms: A Spellshop Novel
Sarah Beth Durst, Bramble, $29.99, 9781250400673

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
2. The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318
4. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533
5. Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee, William Morrow, $28.00, 9780063451070
6. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22.00, 9781668209028
7. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28.00, 9780525556572
8. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, W. W. Norton & Company, $35.00, 9781324006848
9. Biological War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen, Dutton, $33.00, 9798217046034
10. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35.00, 9781324094647
11. All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
Emilee Hackney, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593831403
12. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20.00, 9781668072240
13. Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326
14. This Is The Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy
Ben Wikler, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324131434
15. Blueberries for Sal Cookbook: Sweet Recipes Inspired by the Beloved Children's Classic
Robert McCloskey, Clarkson Potter, $14.99, 9780593580400

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512
2. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552
3. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254
4. Project Hail Mary 
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461
5. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
6. Dolly All the Time
Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $20.00, 9780593853979
7. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925
8. The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465
9. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781982112837
10. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
11. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
12. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739
13. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593831892
14. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $20.00, 9781668075098
15. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456
3. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004
4. The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late
Cory Doctorow, MCD, $18.00, 9780374621568
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490
6. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
8. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324130734
9. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522
10. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
Helen Whybrow, Milkweed Editions, $20.00, 9781571311634
11. A Resistance History of the United States
Tad Stoermer, Steerforth, $19.95, 9781586424367
12. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22.00, 9780385348768
13. Communion: The Female Search for Love
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060938291
14. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $23.00, 9780307279286
15. Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
Simon Pare-Poupart, Melville House, $18.99, 9781685892494

MASS MARKET

1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
2. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $13.00, 9780399501487
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $10.99, 9780440180296
7. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
8. Dune 
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
9. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
10. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140501698
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140564341
4. The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887
5. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
6. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
7. Make Way for Ducklings Board Book
Robert McCloskey, Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9798217042067
8. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
9. Where's Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $14.99, 9781536224399
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

1. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763642686
2. The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel 
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488
3. Odder: The Novel
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250423429
4. The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780316593083
5. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
6. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780063415140
7. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
8. Sleepless
Gordon Korman, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781546126119
9. Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500
10. Wombat Waiting
Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178

CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

1. Heartstopper #6: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $19.99, 9781546102441
2. InvestiGators: Weather or Not
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250357915
3. Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882
4. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
5. Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19) 
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135548
6. I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14)
Lauren Tarshis, Peter Wartman (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546137757
7. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
8. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
9. The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536234107
10. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel) 
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296