The 2022 Indie Bestseller List

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

Here is the 2022 Indie Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the period of January 1, 2022 to November 27, 2022. 

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345

2. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474

3. Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $25, 9780593321447

4. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780399562969

5. The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, Viking, $30, 9780735222359

6. Fairy Tale
Stephen King, Scribner, $32.50, 9781668002179

7. The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $28.99, 9780063003057

8. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201

9. Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $30, 9781982168438

10. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066

11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922

12. Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $24, 9780593300237

13. Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $29, 9780593492543

14. The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy, Knopf, $30, 9780307268990

15. Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $28, 9780593158685

 

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824

2. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown, Random House, $30, 9780399592553

3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743

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

5. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, One World, $38, 9780593230572

6. Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $29, 9780316392457

7. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292

8. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9780593237465

9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow, FSG, $35, 9780374157357

10. Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982168018

11. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9781984822789

12. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780525537113

13. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063076099

14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $30, 9780593133231

15. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $35, 9780679406419

 

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933

2. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18, 9780593540480

3. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368

4. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736

5. Book Lovers
Emily Henry, Berkley, $17, 9780593334836

6. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323

7. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624

8. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758

9. It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $17.99, 9781668001226

10. Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781476753188

11. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318

12. Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $16.95, 9780593311295

13. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17, 9781984880987

14. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18, 9781635575569

15. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703

 

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560

2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741

3. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470

4. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780394747231

5. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson, Crown, $20, 9780385348737

6. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, Random House, $18.99, 9780399590528

7. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $18, 9780525510321

8. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316299220

9. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

10. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780679729778

11. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797212272

12. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $18, 9780399588600

13. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard, Vintage, $17, 9780525565994

14. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431

15. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
Matt Kracht, Chronicle, $15.95, 9781452174037

 

EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE READERS

1. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780062991324

2. Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781338714128

3. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Katherine Tegen Books, $15.99, 9780063084087

4. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293

5. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424

6. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264

7. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338801897

8. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, Harper, $8.99, 9780064400558

9. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419756979

10. New Kid: A Graphic Novel
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062691194

11. Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500

12. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $7.99, 9780062895943

13. The Last Cuentista
Donna Barba Higuera, Levine Querido, $18.99, 9781646140893

14. The Ogress and the Orphans
Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $19.95, 9781643750743

15. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $13.99, 9780525553908

 

YOUNG ADULT

1. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062457806

2. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279

3. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680

4. Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $18.99, 9781250766564

5. I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Casey McQuiston, Wednesday Books, $19.99, 9781250244451

6. Gallant
V.E. Schwab, Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780062835772

7. Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9780525555278

8. The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338540574

9. Family of Liars
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593485859

10. Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao, Penguin Teen Canada, $17.99, 9780735269934

11. Legendborn (Indies Introduce)
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $13.99, 9781534441613

12. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $14.99, 9780375842207

13. I Must Betray You
Ruta Sepetys, Philomel Books, $18.99, 9781984836038

14. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $9.99, 9780544340688

15. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $14.99, 9780062498540

 

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617

2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908

3. Creepy Crayon!
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781534465886

4. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926

5. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409

6. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $18.99, 9780803736801

7. Woodland Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $7.95, 9781523514687

8. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701

9. The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $17.99, 9781454946861

10. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905

11. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $8.99, 9780358451228

12. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $18.99, 9780679805274

13. Disney Encanto Little Golden Book
Naibe Reynoso (Adapt.), Alejandro Mesa (Illus.), Golden Books/Disney, $5.99, 9780736442350

14. Bluey: The Pool
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685

15. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628

 

CHILDREN'S SERIES

1. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic

2. Heartstopper
Alice Oseman, Graphix

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet

4. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

5. The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic

6. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion

7. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

8. Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books

9. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers

10. I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic