NEIBA Bestseller List

 NEIBA Bestsellers for October 28, 2026

Based on sales for the week ending Sunday, October 25th, 2026  

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Miss Wolcott's Ghost (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #21)
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30.00, 9781250412607
2. Peck & Peck
Bonnie Garmus, Scribner, $30.00, 9781668251065
3. The Pirate Queen
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385550345
4. Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637
5. Exit Party
Emily St.John Mandel, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593321461
6. Partita
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.00, 9780063577541
7. The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
8. American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee, Cardinal, $36.00, 9781538752036
9. The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $29.99, 9781464249648
10. Hollow Bones
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine Books, $34.00, 9780593726259
11. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216
12. The French Illusion (The French Illusion Series)
John Grisham, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385550543
13. Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection) (The Empyrean)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $24.99, 9781682818084
14. The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746
15. Land
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Simply Ina: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $40.00, 9780593234174
2. The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $38.00, 9780525562238
3. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324131656
4. The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $34.00, 9780316603782
5. Ottolenghi Simple Too: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $45.00, 9781984860088
6. The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving
Ethan Tapper, Timber Press, $28.00, 9781643266510
7. Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up
David Byrne, Penguin Press, $36.00, 9780593655276
8. The Lost Kitchen Volume 3: Seize the Supper
Erin French, Celadon Books, $40.00, 9781250369628
9. The Joy of Cookies: New Classics and Old Favorites to Share
Joanne Chang, Harvest, $32.50, 9780063453173
10. Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
Adam Grant, Viking, $33.00, 9798217059706
11. End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32.00, 9780374621384
12. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35.00, 9781324094647
13. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, Scribner, $32.00, 9781668031575
14. Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy
Kerry Kennedy, HarperOne, $36.00, 9780063454958
15. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512
2. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250828019
3. East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $25.00, 9780142004234
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254
5. The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465
6. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552
7. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $21.00, 9781250178640
8. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
9. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20.00, 9780593595053
10. Fruit Fly
Josh Silver, Crooked Lane Books, $19.99, 9798892426374
11. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $21.00, 9780307744555
12. Bound and Unbound: A paranormal novella duology
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20.00, 9798217192359
13. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20.00, 9780399563263
14. Stitched
Eli McCann, Torrey House Press, $18.95, 9798890920461
15. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Emily Wilson, Liveright, $19.99, 9781324099406
2. The Place of Tides
James Rebanks, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063434165
3. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297
4. Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn, Celadon Books, $18.99, 9781250344489
5. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow, Picador, $20.00, 9781250448194
6. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004
7. The Best American Essays 2026
Masha Gessen, Kim Dana Kupperman, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063454446
8. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $23.00, 9780307279286
9. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456
10. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly  
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
11. How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
Ethan Tapper, Broadleaf Books, $19.99, 9798341900196
12. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $20.00, 9781668094723
13. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560
14. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490
15. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Nobel Prize Winner) (Princeton Classics #129)
Anne Carson, Princeton University Press, $17.95, 9780691247939

MASS MARKET

1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935
4. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11.00, 9780553283686
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
6. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
7. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129
8. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
9. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451669411
10. Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451694727

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Room on the Broom 
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. Gruffalo Granny
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $19.99, 9798217238736
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887
5. Mouse Goes to the Mountains: A Hike Through Nature (Mouse’s Adventures)
Alice Melvin, Thames & Hudson, $19.95, 9780500653951
6. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
8. Midnight Manor: A Backwards Bedtime Book
Sid Sharp, Annick Press, $19.99, 9781834021195
9. The Pumpkin Thief (The Leaf Thief)
Alice Hemming, Nicola Slater (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $18.99, 9781464268076
10. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?: Stamped Edges Special Edition
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $10.99, 9781250445506

CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

1. Fight or Flight (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #21)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782701
2. Baby-sitters on Board!: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #1)
Raina Telgemeier (Illus.), Graphix, $16.99, 9781546174363
3. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419788109
4. Karen's New Year: A Graphic Novel (Baby-sitters Little Sister #13) (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix)
DK Yingst (Illus.), Ann M. Martin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135401
5. Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546171607
6. Spy School Goes East
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665986717
7. Emmie & Friends: Seriously, Celia?: A Graphic Novel
Terri Libenson, Storytide, $15.99, 9780063481404
8. The Neverfear (Impossible Creatures #3)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809945
9. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
10. The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536234107

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE

1. Building 903
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063515109
2. Camp Half-Blood: From the World of Percy Jackson: The Wild Zone
Rick Riordan, Annabelle Oh, Random House Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9798217445981
3. Licorice
Kara LaReau, Kelly Murphy (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781546185949
4. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
5. Front Desk: The Graphic Novel
Kelly Yang, Fumio Obata (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338856446
6. A Raven of the Rainforest (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel #5)
Rosanne Parry, Howard Gray (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063424319
7. Scholastic Book of World Records 2027
Scholastic, Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9798225067977
8. Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life: A Wish Novel
Suzanne Nelson, Scholastic Inc., $12.99, 9798225079338
9. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
10. The Wump
Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9798217004911

YOUNG ADULT

1. Trust Fall
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9798347100217
2. The Sixth Faction Deluxe Limited Edition (A New Divergent Series #1)
Veronica Roth, HarperCollins, $25.99, 9780063462540
3. The Pools
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593904121
4. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665921275
5. Marionetta, Volume 1
Míriam Bonastre Tur, Ink Pop, $18.99, 9798217032846
6. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
7. Capsized
Charlotte Lillie Balogh, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9798217226191
8. Our Strange Duet
Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $24.99, 9798217124183
9. Sold
Patricia McCormick, Hyperion, $12.99, 9780786851720
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412