The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists [4] provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Comics & Graphic Works Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 18, 2021.

Fiction

1. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338712766

2. The Girl from the Sea
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338540574

3. Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338568905

4. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062691194

5. Guts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500

6. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908

7. Twins
Varian Johnson, Varian Johnson, Shannon Wright (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338236132

8. Drama
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545326995

9. Sisters
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540605

10. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629

Nonfiction

1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581

2. The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $24, 9780544387652

3. Just Pretend
Tori Sharp, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316538855

4. Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh, Gallery Books, $30, 9781982156947

5. Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99, 9780063051331

6. Strange Planet
Nathan W. Pyle, Morrow Gift, $14.99, 9780062970701

7. They Called Us Enemy
George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $19.99, 9781603094504

8. March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.95, 9781603093002

9. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $17.99, 9780618871711

10. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez (Illus.), Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781982115180