The Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bestseller List

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 15, 2018.

1. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16, 9780804190138

2. The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006

3. Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer, MCD/FSG, $14, 9780374537159

4. Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman, Norton, $15.95, 9780393356182

5. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

6. How to Stop Time
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525522874

7. Artemis
Andy Weir, Crown, $27, 9780553448122

8. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555977887

9. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, S&S, $15.99, 9781451673319

10. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $9.99, 9780441478125

11. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229296

12. Authority
Jeff VanderMeer, FSG, $15, 9780374104108

13. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

14. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Tor, $15.99, 9780765382030

15. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741

16. Borne
Jeff VanderMeer, MCD, $15, 9780374537654

17. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716

18. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $16, 9780804172448

19. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719

20. Armada
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16, 9780804137270

21. The Swarm
Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston, Tor, $8.99, 9780765375636

22. The Changeling
Victor LaValle, Spiegel & Grau, $18, 9780812985870

23. Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer, FSG, $15, 9780374104115

24. The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $16, 9780307455796

25. The Boy on the Bridge
M.R. Carey, Orbit, $16.99, 9780316300346