The Southern Indie Bestseller List

The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for the week ending Sunday, September 17, 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 Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593418390
5. The Fraud
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $29, 9780525558965
6. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
8. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
10. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
11. The River We Remember
William Kent Krueger, Atria Books, $28.99, 9781982179212
12. What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama, Hanover Square Press, $21.99, 9781335005625
13. Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon, Morrow, $30, 9780063315044
14. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
15. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $27, 9780593441275
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
2. Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982181284
3. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey, Portfolio, $30, 9780593545409
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Knopf, $28, 9780525657323
5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
6. Talking to My Angels
Melissa Etheridge, Harper Wave, $30, 9780063257450
7. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
Joe Posnanski, Dutton, $29, 9780593472675
8. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
9. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
10. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598
11. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey Nyx Walker, National Geographic, $30, 9781426223303
12. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
Franklin Foer, Penguin Press, $30, 9781101981146
13. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
14. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
Billy Walters, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668032855
15. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
Bernie Taupin, Hachette Books, $32.50, 9780306828676
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Ballantine, $18, 9781984818409
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
3. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
5. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
6. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
7. Things We Left Behind
Lucy Score, Bloom Books, $18.99, 9781728276120
8. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
9. The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $17, 9780593315088
10. A Court of Frost and Starlight
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17, 9781635575620
11. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781639730957
12. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
13. Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $18, 9780593446089
14. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173
15. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
3. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage, $25, 9780375726262
4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
5. Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316392433
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
8. The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
John Railey, History Press, $23.99, 9781467147392
9. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $20, 9780593133255
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
11. A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.), Verso, $19.95, 9781804290446
12. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $17.99, 9781451697728
13. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228
14. Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17, 9780593315200
15. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
4. Steal
James Patterson, Howard Roughan, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538720752
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
8. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765365279
9. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
10. The Stand
Stephen King, Anchor, $10.99, 9780593313886
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
2. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. Just Because
Matthew McConaughey, Renée Kurilla (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593622032
5. Peekaboo: Pumpkin (Peekaboo You)
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229813
6. Bluey: What Games Should We Play?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Tallulah May, Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593658420
7. Eek! Halloween!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665925143
8. Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Boo!
Wade Bradford, Tom Brannon (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593643532
9. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
2. The Dreamatics
Michelle Cuevas, Rocky Pond Books, $18.99, 9780593532225
3. Hell Followed with Us
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $12.99, 9781682635636
4. Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464
5. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Katherine Tegen Books, $16.99, 9780063084087
6. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $19.99, 9781682636114
7. Freewater
Amina Luqman-Dawson, Jimmy Patterson, $8.99, 9780316056670
8. Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Everything: The Ultimate Guide to the World Around You
DK Children, $29.99, 9780744084702
9. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $7.99, 9780062895943
10. Island of Spies
Sheila Turnage, Dial Books, $18.99, 9780735231252
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
2. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
3. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $5.99, 9780679824114
4. We'll Always Have Summer (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781416995593
5. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910
6. The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316480772
7. Karen's Haircut: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #7)
Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762624
8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
C.S. Lewis, HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780060765460
9. The Bad Guys (The Bad Guys, #1)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $5.99, 9780545912402
10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $8.99, 9781368051477
 
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