The New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
NAIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 20, 2020. Based on reporting from the 
independent booksellers of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and 
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HARDCOVER FICTION 
1. The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26, 9781609455910
2. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
3. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
4. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239
5. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27, 9781635575637
6. Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184
7. The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett, Viking, $36, 9780525954989
8. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452
9. Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316498937
10. Monogamy
Sue Miller, Harper, $28.99, 9780062969651
11. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
12. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
13. One by One
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $27.99, 9781501188817
14. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062868930
15. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Rage
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781982131739
2. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
3. Disloyal
Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699
4. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
5. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
6. His Truth Is Marching On
Jon Meacham, Random House, $30, 9781984855022
7. Compromised
Peter Strzok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780358237068
8. Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Jenna Bush Hager, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062960627
9. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547
10. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
11. Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla, Clarkson Potter, $28, 9781524759216
12. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre, Crown, $28, 9780593136300
13. Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28, 9781982141462
14. Evil Geniuses
Kurt Andersen, Random House, $30, 9781984801340
15. Vesper Flights
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27, 9780802128812
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
2. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17, 9781984822185
3. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
4. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
5. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166
6. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
7. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
8. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
9. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
10. The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa, Vintage, $16, 9781101911815
11. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
12. The Guest Book
Sarah Blake, Flatiron Books, $17.99, 9781250110275
13. Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson, Riverhead Books, $16, 9780525535287
14. The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn, Morrow, $17.99, 9780062905086
15. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17, 9781476749303
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254
2. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
3. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
4. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
5. The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536
6. Intimations
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612
7. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17, 9780593133934
8. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
9. Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $16.95, 9780307279286
10. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron de Hart, Vintage, $18, 9781984897831
11. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
12. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
13. The Great Influenza
John M. Barry, Penguin, $19, 9780143036494
14. Our Malady
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780593238899
15. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
 
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688
4. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
5. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
6. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
7. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
8. Carrie
Stephen King, Anchor, $7.99, 9780307743664
9. Two Kinds of Truth
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538700013
10. The Reckoning
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780525620938
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
2. Wild Symphony
Dan Brown, Susan Batori (Illus.), Rodale Kids, $18.99, 9780593123843
3. Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Board Book
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
5. I Am Every Good Thing
Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780525518778
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. Hair Love
Matthew A. Cherry, Vashti Harrison (Illus.), Kokila, $17.99, 9780525553366
8. I Promise
LeBron James, Nina Mata (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780062971067
9. The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99, 9780399246531
10. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $8.99, 9780805047905
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
2. Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062840356
3. Skunk and Badger
Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Algonquin Young Readers, $18.95, 9781643750057
4. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
5. Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062996480
6. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194
7. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
8. Witches of Brooklyn
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $12.99, 9780593119273
9. The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780061992278
10. A Whale of the Wild
Rosanne Parry, Lindsay Moore (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $17.99, 9780062995926
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338535624
2. Logan Likes Mary Anne! (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #8)
Ann M. Martin, Gale Galligan (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338304541
3. Midnight Sun (Twilight)
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $27.99, 9780316707046
4. Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (Who Was/Is…?)
Patricia Brennan Demuth, Jake Murray (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $5.99, 9781524793531
5. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $27.99, 9781338635171
6. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
7. Becoming Brianna (Emmie & Friends)
Terri Libenson, Balzer + Bray, $12.99, 9780062894533
8. The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road
Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781984835345
9. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9781338236576
10. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $5.99, 9780679824114