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 March 22, 2026.
1. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
2. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
3. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
4. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004
5. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
6. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
8. We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower, Ballantine Books, $35, 9780593727027
9. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
10. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
11. Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn, Celadon Books, $29.99, 9781250344465
12. Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30, 9781984881939
13. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
14. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
15. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22, 9780385348768
16. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
17. Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
18. The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706
19. You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
Christina Applegate, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316594929
20. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
21. 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
22. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
23. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $19, 9780593498088
24. Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Julian Sancton, Crown, $33, 9780593594179
25. The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
Mark Braude, Grand Central Publishing, $32.50, 9781538767115