NEIBA Bestseller List

For the week ending
Sunday, April 26th, 2026  

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30, 9780593804216
2. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
3. The Keeper
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493465
4. Go Gentle
Maria Semple, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $30, 9798217176632
5. American Fantasy
Emma Straub, Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217046850
6. The Ending Writes Itself
Evelyn Clarke, Harper, $30, 9780063444614
7. Transcription
Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 9780374618599
8. Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181
9. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
10. The Night We Met (Indie Exclusive Edition)
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $30, 9781538780688
11. Into the Blue
Emma Brodie, Ballantine Books, $30, 9798217093700
12. The News from Dublin: Stories
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $29, 9781476785141
13. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
14. Cherry Baby
Rainbow Rowell, William Morrow, $32, 9780063380264
15. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593973257

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548533
2. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
3. Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32, 9780593129326
4. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991
5. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22, 9781668209028
6. How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work
Jodi Kantor, Little, Brown and Company, $25, 9780316609555
7. Small Town Girls: a writer's memoir
Jayne Anne Phillips, Knopf, $28, 9780593804933
8. How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Jenny Lawson, Penguin Life, $29, 9780593833216
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
10. Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
Caroline Bicks, Hogarth, $29, 9780593736722
11. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
12. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
13. The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
Arthur C. Brooks, Portfolio, $30, 9780593545423
14. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
15. We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower, Ballantine Books, $35, 9780593727027

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. Project Hail Mary (Movie Tie-In)
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22, 9798217299461
3. The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20, 9780593873465
4. James
Percival Everett, Vintage, $20, 9780593686867
5. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
6. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
7. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
9. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
10. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Vintage, $18, 9780593689325
11. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
12. Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $19, 9780593315477
13. The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham, Back Bay Books, $19.99, 9780316567886
14. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
15. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004
2. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593299944
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $22, 9781501183065
5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22, 9780385348768
6. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $22, 9780593800027
7. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888904510
8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
9. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $21, 9781982108670
10. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22, 9780307279286
11. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
12. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
13. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
14. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $18.95, 9781771643771
15. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490

MASS MARKET

1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
6. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
7. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
8. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477109

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. It's My Bird-Day!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454999621
2. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $10.99, 9780140564341
3. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $9.99, 9780140501698
4. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
8. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
9. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
10. Good Night, Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780358229278

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

1. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546151210
2. The Escape Game
Marissa Meyer, Tamara Moss, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $22.99, 9798217006120
3. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
4. A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic: Or, Like Lightning in an Umbrella Storm
Philip C. Stead, Neal Porter Books, $18.99, 9780823458097
5. Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
Rex Ogle, Dave Valeza (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338575071
6. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
7. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
8. The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
Jasmine Warga, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250387189
9. The Faraway Inn
Sarah Beth Durst, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217024308
10. We're a Bad Idea, Right?
K. L. Walther, Delacorte Romance, $14.99, 9780593904794

CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

1. Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135548
2. The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire, Book 16)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic Press, $19.99, 9781546129547
3. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
5. Big Nate: Code Red!
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602420
6. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
7. Ape Escape (FunJungle)
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781665986779
8. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
9. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9780545942157
10. Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250359469