The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for the week ending Sunday, April 14, 2024. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
3. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
4. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
6. The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434
7. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House, $28, 9780593597033
8. First Lie Wins
Ashley Elston, Pamela Dorman Books, $28, 9780593492918
9. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
10. The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Doubleday, $29, 9780385550611
11. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
12. Daughter of Mine
Megan Miranda, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $28.99, 9781668010440
13. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
14. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $29, 9780593318256
15. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books, $28, 9781643753843
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
4. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232
5. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
6. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House, $32, 9780593448793
7. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, Little, Brown and Company, $28, 9780316567534
8. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Knopf, $28, 9780525657323
11. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598
12. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
13. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
Daniel de Visé, Atlantic Monthly Press, $28, 9780802160980
14. Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982181284
15. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
2. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
3. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
4. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933
6. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
7. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976
8. The Trackers
Charles Frazier, Ecco, $19.99, 9780062948090
9. A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575606
10. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030
11. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583
12. The Summer of Songbirds
Kristy Woodson Harvey, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668010839
13. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
14. What the Mountains Remember
Joy Callaway, Harper Muse, $18.99, 9781400244317
15. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
2. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316392433
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
6. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
7. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257
8. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
9. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220
10. The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780060652937
11. Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316776967
12. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo, 37 Ink, $19.99, 9781501191060
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
14. Cinema Speculation
Quentin Tarantino, Harper Perennial, $21, 9780063112575
15. How to Collect Art
Magnus Resch, Phaidon Press, $34.95, 9781838666255
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
6. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
7. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279
8. Persuader
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780440245988
9. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
10. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
2. Bluey: Daddy Putdown
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750865
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419768774
5. Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney Hyperion, $18.99, 9781368089609
6. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
7. Pretty Ugly
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), TOON Books, $18.99, 9781662665271
8. I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.), HarperFestival, $10.99, 9780063295971
9. Indestructibles: It's Bath Time!
Amy Pixton, Carolina Buzio (Illus.), Workman, $5.99, 9781523512751
10. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207
2. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736076
3. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
4. Ferris
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536231052
5. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
6. The Night War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Dial Books, $17.99, 9780735228566
7. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439
8. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452
9. Restart
Gordon Korman, Scholastic Press, $6.99, 9781338053807
10. Bridge to Bat City
Ernest Cline, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316460583
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
2. Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was/Is...?)
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $6.99, 9780593754221
3. Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers (Cat Kid Comic Club, #5)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338896398
4. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766947
6. Winter Turning: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #7)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338730920
7. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368098175
8. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910
9. The 169-Story Treehouse: Doppelganger Doom! (The Treehouse Books, #13)
Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250850218
10. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339016580