The Southern Indie Bestseller List

The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for the week ending Sunday, September 10, 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. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30, 9780063327528
2. Holly
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668016138
3. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
5. The Fraud
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $29, 9780525558965
6. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
7. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
9. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
10. None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $28, 9781982179007
11. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780399562969
12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
13. Amazing Grace Adams
Fran Littlewood, Henry Holt and Co., $27.99, 9781250857019
14. Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $29, 9780385545150
15. Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon, Morrow, $30, 9780063315044
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
2. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Knopf, $28, 9780525657323
4. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Maria Bamford, Gallery Books, $28.99, 9781982168568
5. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598
6. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
7. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
Harrison Scott Key, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781668015506
8. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
Billy Walters, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668032855
9. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
Joe Posnanski, Dutton, $29, 9780593472675
10. Tell It Like It Is: My Story
Aaron Neville, Hachette Books, $29, 9780306832536
11. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
12. The Deadline: Essays
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $45, 9781631496127
13. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Drew Gilpin Faust, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374601805
14. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
15. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
4. Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433
5. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
6. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
7. Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Ballantine, $18, 9781984818409
8. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
9. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583
10. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
11. Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $19.99, 9781649375803
12. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173
13. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
14. Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $18, 9780593492666
15. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781639730957
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
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. Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316392433
5. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $20, 9780593133255
6. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage, $25, 9780375726262
7. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $18, 9781250849359
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257
9. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088
10. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20, 9780374533557
11. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
12. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
Matt Kracht, Chronicle, $15.95, 9781797212272
13. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220
14. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316296816
15. Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Penguin Classics, $11, 9780140449334
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477123
4. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
5. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553293357
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
7. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
8. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
9. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
10. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. I Will Read to You
Gideon Sterer, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316592611
4. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
5. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780544772533
6. Boo! Bluey's Halloween
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593659540
7. Peekaboo: Pumpkin (Peekaboo You)
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229813
8. Hot Dog
Doug Salati, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593308431
9. Bluey: Barky Boats
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750469
10. Halloween On The Farm
Roger Priddy, Priddy Books US, $8.99, 9781684492961
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
2. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $8.99, 9780064400558
3. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $19.99, 9781682636114
4. Foxglove
Adalyn Grace, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316162500
5. This Winter
Alice Oseman, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781338885132
6. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439
7. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
8. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250838810
9. Garlic and the Vampire
Bree Paulsen, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062995087
10. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910
2. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $16.99, 9781339016573
3. The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316480772
4. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
5. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
6. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
7. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
8. The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316310314
9. Spy School Project X
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9781534479500
10. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741087
 

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