The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for the week ending Sunday, April 28, 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. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
4. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
5. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302
6. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251
7. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
8. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
9. A Calamity of Souls
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $30, 9781538765029
10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
11. The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434
12. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
13. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
14. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada Limón (Ed.), Milkweed Editions, $25, 9781571315687
15. The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Doubleday, $29, 9780385550611
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
2. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
3. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249
4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental
Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
5. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James
Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
6. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
Tommy Tomlinson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781982149321
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. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
10. Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374299408
11. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976
12. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060
13. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
Savannah Guthrie, Thomas Nelson, $29.99, 9781400341122
14. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232
15. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250325778
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
3. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
4. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976
5. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
6. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
8. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $18, 9780143110439
9. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
10. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
11. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933
12. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030
13. The Teacher
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781728296210
14. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263
15. House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635577020
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
4. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
5. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
8. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
9. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott, Vintage, $17, 9780385480017
10. Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780060652920
11. The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene, Penguin, $26, 9780140280197
12. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Nina Totenberg, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982188092
13. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Katie Holten, Tin House Books, $19.95, 9781959030782
14. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $18, 9781416591061
15. Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
Larry E. Tise, History Press, $21.99, 9781467142434
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
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. God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098257
7. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
8. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
9. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
10. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Where's the Dog?
Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536232257
4. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419768774
5. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
6. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
7. Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten
Michelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536219111
8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
9. Little Blue Truck's Springtime: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780544938090
10. Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney Hyperion, $18.99, 9781368089609
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. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
4. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
5. 96 Facts About Taylor Swift: Quizzes, Quotes, Questions, and More!
Arie Kaplan, Risa Rodil (Illus.), Grosset & Dunlap, $6.99, 9780593750933
6. Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World
Tui T. Sutherland, Joy Ang (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $24.99, 9781338634822
7. Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250857453
8. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439
9. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191
10. The Prisoner's Throne
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316592710
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. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
4. I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #9)
Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338883046
5. Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers (Cat Kid Comic Club, #5)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338896398
6. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
7. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
8. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9780545942157
9. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316382007
10. Winter Turning: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #7)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338730920