The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.
Here is the Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 16, 2025.
1. 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
2. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
3. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
4. Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
6. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
7. Awake: A Memoir
Jen Hatmaker, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668083680
8. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
9. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
10. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
11. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
12. Finding My Way: A Memoir
Malala Yousafzai, Atria Books, $30, 9781668054277
13. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
14. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
15. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
16. Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Beth Macy, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593656730
17. Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann, Abrams Press, $35, 9781419780714
18. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
19. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
20. We Survived the Night (Indies Introduce)
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Knopf, $30, 9780593320785
21. Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710
22. Last Rites
Ozzy Osbourne, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538775417
23. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $35, 9780385547512
24. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $19, 9780593498088
25. The Book of Sheen: A Memoir
Charlie Sheen, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668075289