The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.
Here is the Indie SciFi/Fantasy Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 8, 2026.
1. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32, 9780593820308
4. Red Rising
Pierce Brown, Del Rey, $18, 9780345539809
5. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
6. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
7. Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820261
8. The Elsewhere Express
Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $32.99, 9780593725023
9. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
10. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
11. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593973257
12. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820285
13. Nine Goblins
T. Kingfisher, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250400116
14. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
15. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
16. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $17, 9781451673319
17. Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433
18. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
19. Twelve Months
Jim Butcher, Ace, $30, 9780593199336
20. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
21. The Will of the Many
James Islington, S&S/Saga Press, $22.99, 9781982141189
22. Isles of the Emberdark
Brandon Sanderson, Tor Books, $30.99, 9781250415394
23. The Everlasting
Alix E. Harrow, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250799081
24. The Gate of the Feral Gods
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593955970
25. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520