The Indie Healthy Living Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Healthy Living Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending December 12, 2021.

1. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616

2. Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $18, 9781982165314

3. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker, Ph.D., Scribner, $18, 9781501144325

4. The Little Book of Hygge
Meik Wiking, Morrow, $19.99, 9780062658807

5. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Daniel Lieberman, Vintage, $17, 9780525434788

6. Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
Jessamyn Stanley, Workman, $15.95, 9781523505210

7. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Michael Greger, M.D., Gene Stone, Flatiron Books, $32.50, 9781250066114

8. Eat Better, Feel Better: My Recipes for Wellness and Healing, Inside and Out
Giada De Laurentiis, Rodale Books, $32.50, 9780593138434

9. How to Eat
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006723

10. Christopher Hobbs's Medicinal Mushrooms: The Essential Guide: Boost Immunity, Improve Memory, Fight Cancer, and Expand Your Consciousness
Christopher Hobbs, L.Ac., AHG, Storey Publishing, $24.95, 9781635861679

11. 5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone
Barbara Ann Kipfer, Workman, $9.95, 9781523509850

12. Earth Medicines: Ancestral Wisdom, Healing Recipes, and Wellness Rituals from a Curandera
Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, Roost Books, $24.95, 9781611808438

13. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Arsenal Pulp Press, $17.95, 9781551527383

14. The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential
Wim Hof, Sounds True, $25.99, 9781683644095

15. The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease
Michael Greger, M.D., Gene Stone, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250127761

16. Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use
Rosemary Gladstar, Storey Publishing, $14.95, 9781612120058

17. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Revised Edition)
Giulia Enders, Jill Enders (Illus.), Greystone Books, $19.95, 9781771643764

18. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Michael Easter, Rodale Books, $28, 9780593138762

19. Pajama Pilates: 40 Exercises for Stretching, Strengthening, and Toning at Home
Maria Mankin, Maja Tomljanovic (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.95, 9781797207087

20. Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness
Scott Kloos, Timber Press, $27.95, 9781604696578

21. I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion
Brendan Leonard, Artisan, $14.95, 9781579659882

22. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Bantam, $22, 9780345536938

23. The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain
Alan Gordon, LCSW, Alon Ziv, Avery, $27, 9780593086834

24. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
Anne Boyer, Picador, $18, 9781250757982

25. My Houseplant Changed My Life: Green Well-being for the Great Indoors
David Domoney, DK, $14.99, 9780744026795