The Southern Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for the 
week ended Sunday, January 23, 2022. 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. Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $30, 9781982168438
2. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $27, 9780593356159
3. The Paris Bookseller
Kerri Maher, Berkley, $26, 9780593102183
4. The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Mitch Albom, Harper, $23.99, 9780062888341
5. The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, Viking, $30, 9780735222359
6. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
7. To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara, Doubleday, $32.50, 9780385547932
8. The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781501171345
9. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066
10. Oh William!
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $27, 9780812989434
11. The Latinist
Mark Prins, Norton, $26.95, 9780393541274
12. Wish You Were Here
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99, 9781984818416
13. The Wish
Nicholas Sparks, Grand Central, $28, 9781538728628
14. Bewilderment
Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95, 9780393881141
15. A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham, Minotaur, $27.99, 9781250803825
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
Jamie Raskin, Harper, $27.99, 9780063209787
2. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, One World, $38, 9780593230572
3. You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ed.), Genevieve West (Ed.), Amistad, $29.99, 9780063043855
4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743
5. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown, Random House, $30, 9780399592553
6. These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780063092785
7. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Rosemary Sullivan, Harper, $29.99, 9780062892355
8. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
9. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063076099
10. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $30, 9780593139134
11. Wintering
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $24, 9780593189481
12. Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company
Whitney Johnson, Harvard Business Review Press, $30, 9781647821159
13. Making Big Happen: Applying the Make Big Happen System to Grow Big
Mark Moses, Don Schiavone, Craig Coleman, Chris Larkins, Advantage Media, $29.99, 9781642253276
14. A Little Closer to Home: How I Found the Calm After the Storm
Ginger Zee, Hyperion Avenue, $26.99, 9781368042000
15. Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide
Miranda Devine, Post Hill Press, $28, 9781637581056
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
2. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
3. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
4. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
5. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780593438374
6. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160844
7. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $18, 9781501173219
8. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $16.95, 9781984898876
9. The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $16, 9780593336823
10. When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut, New York Review Books, $17.95, 9781681375663
11. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Perennial, $15.99, 9780060935467
12. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
13. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736
14. The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse, Penguin, $17, 9780593296691
15. Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781476753188
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $15.99, 9780060959470
2. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431
5. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006884
6. All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250766342
7. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.), Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781984859150
8. The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Jim DeFede, Morrow, $16.99, 9780063005983
9. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16.99, 9781451697728
10. Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780060652920
11. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
12. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, FSG, $17, 9780374531386
13. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $18, 9780525510321
14. How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie, Gallery Books, $16.99, 9780671027032
15. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
3. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
4. The Perks of Loving a Wallflower
Erica Ridley, Forever, $8.99, 9781538719541
5. Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer
Joseph Conrad, Signet, $5.95, 9780451531032
6. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
7. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
8. The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan, Tor, $10.99, 9781250251466
9. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
10. Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $9.99, 9781250787989
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Stacey's Extraordinary Words
Stacey Abrams, Kitt Thomas (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780063209473
2. Peekaboo: Love
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Nosy Crow, $9.99, 9781536220209
3. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $8.99, 9780140501698
4. A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Perfect Valentine
Amy Young, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99, 9780374314224
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
6. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
7. Love You by Heart
Peter H. Reynolds, Orchard Books, $9.99, 9781338783636
8. Tiny Tots Peep-Through: Colorful Trucks
Roger Priddy, Priddy Books US, $8.99, 9781684491711
9. Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Kevin Noble Maillard, Juana Martinez-Neal (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $18.99, 9781626727465
10. Pearl
Molly Idle, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316465670
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250774156
2. Daughter of the Deep
Rick Riordan, Disney-Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368077927
3. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $8.99, 9780064400558
4. Barb the Last Berzerker
Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781534485716
5. Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin (Illus.), Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $19.99, 9781534439467
6. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419756979
7. Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781665902168
8. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L Konigsburg, Aladdin, $8.99, 9780689711817
9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl, Puffin, $8.99, 9780142410318
10. Here's to Us
Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063071636
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749155
2. Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives (Cat Kid Comic Club, #2)
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338784855
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1)
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419741852
4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K.Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780439064873
5. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, Book 1)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545349239
6. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
7. Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi, Harper, $11.99, 9780062085504
8. Greenglass House
Kate Milford, Jaime Zollars (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780544540286
9. Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338680454
10. Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? (Who Was/Is...?)
Bonnie Bader, Penguin Workshop, $5.99, 9780448447230