The Southern Indie Bestseller List

The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for the week ending Sunday, March 19, 2023. 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. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
3. I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai, Viking, $28, 9780593490143
4. Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $28, 9780593490693
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $27.99, 9780063204157
6. Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano, The Dial Press, $28, 9780593243732
7. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780399562969
8. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
9. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $30, 9780385549073
10. Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton, FSG, $28, 9780374110338
11. I Will Find You
Harlan Coben, Grand Central, $30, 9781538748367
12. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781451648218
13. The Boys from Biloxi
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385548922
14. The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes, Dutton, $27, 9780593186718
15. The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982197360
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
2. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
3. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
4. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Jenny Odell, Random House, $28.99, 9780593242704
5. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $26, 9780593329993
6. Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Benjamin Hall, Harper, $32, 9780063309661
7. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9781984822789
8. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
Bernie Sanders, John Nichols, Crown, $28, 9780593238714
9. The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival
Ron DeSantis, Broadside Books, $35, 9780063276000
10. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown, Random House, $30, 9780399592553
11. The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of North Carolina Press, $39.95, 9781469664989
12. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $32.5, 9781982117351
13. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, One World, $38, 9780593230572
14. Bittersweet
Susan Cain, Crown, $28, 9780451499783
15. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
Larry Loftis, Morrow, $32.99, 9780063234581
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17, 9781524798642
2. The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $18.99, 9780063003064
3. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173
4. The Candy House
Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $17.99, 9781476716770
5. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
6. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
7. Never Never
Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, Canary Street Press, $17.99, 9781335004888
8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
9. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
10. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
11. Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree, Tor, $17.99, 9781250886088
12. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
13. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
14. Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $20, 9781982168445
15. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $20, 9780593230275
2. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
5. The Nineties: A Book
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin, $18, 9780735217966
6. The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
7. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
8. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry, Ecco, $19.99, 9780062977373
9. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
10. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $18.99, 9780062964625
11. These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780063092792
12. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Fintan O'Toole, Liveright, $20, 9781324092872
13. Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
Christopher Knowlton, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982128388
14. In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson, Broadway, $18, 9780307408853
15. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
Benjamin Gilmer, Ballantine Books, $18, 9780593355183
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9781250318541
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765365279
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
6. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
7. Moby- Dick
Herman Melville, Signet, $5.95, 9780451532282
8. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
9. The Shining
Stephen King, Anchor, $9.99, 9780307743657
10. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $7.99, 9781250773012
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Hot Dog
Doug Salati, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593308431
2. Bluey: Easter
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593658383
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein, Harper, $17.99, 9780060256654
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Egg Hunt
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $12.99, 9780593523575
6. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
7. The Golden Egg Book (Little Golden Book)
Margaret Wise Brown, Golden Books, $4.99, 9780385384766
8. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $8.99, 9780399230035
9. Peekaboo: Moon (Peekaboo You)
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536222753
10. Bluey: The Beach
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel)
Alan Gratz, Brent Schoonover (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338775891
2. The Moth Keeper: A Graphic Novel
K. O'Neill, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593182260
3. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
4. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593533239
5. Legendborn
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $13.99, 9781534441613
6. Leeva at Last
Sara Pennypacker, Matthew Cordell (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780063114425
7. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338801880
8. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $8.99, 9780064400558
9. She Is a Haunting
Trang Thanh Tran, Bloomsbury YA, $18.99, 9781547610815
10. The Tryout: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741261
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419762949
2. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $10.99, 9781250852564
3. Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations (Cat Kid Comic Club, #4)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338846621
4. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
5. Dog Man and Cat Kid
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741063
6. InvestiGators: Heist and Seek
John Patrick Green, First Second, $10.99, 9781250849885
7. The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Now With a Dog Man Comic!): 25 1/2 Anniversary Edition
Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338865394
8. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
9. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
10. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
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