The New England Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NEIBA, for 
the week ended Sunday, September 19, 2021. Based on reporting from the independent 
booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. 
For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385545136
2. Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney, FSG, $28, 9780374602604
3. Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty, Holt, $28.99, 9781250220257
4. The Madness of Crowds
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145260
5. Matrix
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $28, 9781594634499
6. The Magician
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $28, 9781476785080
7. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
8. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Harper, $28.99, 9780062942937
9. The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780593329825
10. A Slow Fire Burning
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735211230
11. The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave, S&S, $27, 9781501171345
12. The Guide
Peter Heller, Knopf, $27, 9780525657767
13. The Maidens
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $27.99, 9781250304452
14. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $28.99, 9780593135204
15. Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead, Knopf, $28.95, 9780525656975
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach, Norton, $26.95, 9781324001935
2. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, $30, 9780525562177
3. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
4. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard, Knopf, $28.95, 9780525656098
5. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743
6. Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
Evan Osnos, FSG, $30, 9780374286675
7. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Tarana Burke, Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, $28.99, 9781250621733
8. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
9. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $35, 9780062802798
10. This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $28, 9780593296905
11. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan, PublicAffairs, $30, 9781541730335
12. The Weekday Vegetarians: 100 Recipes and a Real-Life Plan for Eating Less Meat
Jenny Rosenstrach, Clarkson Potter, $32.5, 9780593138748
13. Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice
Chris Wallace, Avid Reader Press/S&S, $30, 9781982176525
14. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson, Graywolf Press, $27, 9781644450628
15. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Joy Harjo, Norton, $25, 9780393248524
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
2. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160844
3. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $16.95, 9781984898876
4. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
5. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
6. The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780062671196
7. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18, 9780735219106
8. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062868947
9. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
10. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780062963680
11. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
12. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $17, 9780525562047
13. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17, 9781984880987
14. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
15. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
2. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2022
Old Farmer's Almanac, $9.95, 9781571988935
3. The Best of Me
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316242400
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 Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $17, 9780804172721
6. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $18, 9780525510321
7. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
8. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall, Penguin, $16, 9780525560562
9. New England's Roadside Ecology: Explore 30 of the Region's Unique Natural Areas
Tom Wessels, Timber Press, $24.95, 9781643260099
10. 50 Hikes with Kids New England
Wendy Gorton, Timber Press, $19.95, 9781643260013
11. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
12. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
Kerri Arsenault, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250799685
13. Agent Sonya: The Spy Next Door
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $18, 9780593136324
14. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $16.95, 9780307279286
15. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes
Sam Sifton, Ten Speed Press, $28, 9781984858474
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino, Harper Perennial, $9.99, 9780063112520
4. The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper Voyager, $8.99, 9780061054884
5. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
7. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $9.99, 9780441478125
8. The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318626
9. The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan, Tor, $10.99, 9781250251466
10. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9780765365279
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
2. Norman Didn't Do It!: (Yes, He Did)
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney-Hyperion, $17.99, 9781368026239
3. Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $9.99, 9780140564341
4. I Am Courage: A Book of Resilience
Susan Verde, Peter H. Reynolds (Illus.), Abrams, $14.99, 9781419746468
5. The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062954541
6. Time for School, Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $18.99, 9780358412243
7. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
8. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
9. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780544772533
10. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $8.99, 9780358451228
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Friends Forever
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250317568
2. Hooky
Míriam Bonastre Tur, Etch/Clarion Books, $12.99, 9780358468295
3. Willodeen
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147400
4. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062457806
5. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419756979
6. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680
7. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908
8. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
9. Ground Zero
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781338245752
10. Drama
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545326995
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Kristy and the Snobs: (Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #10)
Ann M. Martin, Chan Chau (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338304602
2. Pax, Journey Home
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $17.99, 9780062930347
3. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
4. Spy School at Sea
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534479432
5. The Last Kids on Earth and the Doomsday Race
Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781984835376
6. Clash (A Click Graphic Novel)
Kayla Miller, Etch/Clarion Books, $12.99, 9780358242192
7. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
8. Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $12.99, 9780593119303
9. Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338680454
10. The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780759557635