The Southern Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for
the week ended Sunday, March 2, 2025. Based on reporting from the independent
booksellers of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.
For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
2. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. Battle Mountain
C.J. Box, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $32, 9780593851050
5. We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9781984879325
6. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
7. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
8. Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089
9. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
10. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
11. The Bones Beneath My Skin
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250890436
12. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
13. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
14. Swordheart
T. Kingfisher, Bramble, $28.99, 9781250400222
15. Last Twilight in Paris
Pam Jenoff, Park Row, $28.99, 9780778307983
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
2. Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982
3. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
4. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
6. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
8. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
Neko Case, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538710500
9. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey, Doubleday, $30, 9780385550444
10. Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Alton Brown, Gallery Books, $28.99, 9781668064214
11. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
12. On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437
13. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
14. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
15. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman, Portfolio, $29, 9780735211735
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
2. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
3. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441
4. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
5. The Crash
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227325
6. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
7. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
8. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
9. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
10. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
11. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
12. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
13. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
14. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
15. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $18, 9781101906118
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
9. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
10. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin, $21, 9781984880826
11. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
12. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
14. Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553
15. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
4. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
7. The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657
8. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. The Alloy of Law
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765368546
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. This Little Duckling
Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Nosy Crow, $10.99, 9798887771595
3. Cranky Makes a Friend
Phuc Tran, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063256309
4. Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
Richard Scarry, Golden, $17.99, 9780307157850
5. Your Farm
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230826
6. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
7. Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $9.99, 9780394800165
8. Your Island
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230819
9. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
10. I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
2. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
3. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
4. Space Chasers by Leland Melvin
Leland Melvin, Joe Caramagna, Alison Acton (Illus.), First Second, $14.99, 9781250782762
5. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
6. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
7. Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
Penguin Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593521908
8. A Tempest of Tea
Hafsah Faizal, Square Fish, $14.99, 9781250824998
9. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
10. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest
Aubrey Hartman, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316575720
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
3. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
4. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
5. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
6. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910
7. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
8. Dog Man and Cat Kid
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741063
9. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758
10. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234