The Southern Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SIBA, for
the week ended Sunday, March 9, 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. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
3. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
4. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
5. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
6. We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9781984879325
7. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
8. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
9. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
10. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
11. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
12. Battle Mountain
C.J. Box, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $32, 9780593851050
13. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
14. One Good Thing
Georgia Hunter, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9781984880932
15. The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
2. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
4. Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982
5. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
6. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
7. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
8. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
10. 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
11. Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century
Rob Christensen, University of North Carolina Press, $35, 9781469685243
12. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
13. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Valerie Bauerlein, Ballantine Books, $32, 9780593500583
14. Doc Watson: A Life in Music
Eddie Huffman, University of North Carolina Press, $30, 9781469680354
15. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey, Doubleday, $30, 9780385550444
 
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. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
5. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
6. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
7. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
8. The Crash
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227325
9. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
10. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
11. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
12. The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica, Scribner, $18.99, 9781668051887
13. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
14. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
15. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
6. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
7. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., Ballantine, $22, 9780345396815
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
9. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
10. Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler, Picador, $20, 9781250371911
11. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
12. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
13. How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Maria Ressa, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063257528
14. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553
15. Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
4. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
7. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
8. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
10. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
2. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. 100 First Words
Ms. Rachel, Random House (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593898642
5. Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797226552
6. Make Tracks: In the Sky
Johnny Dyrander (Illus.), Nosy Crow, $10.99, 9798887771229
7. Bunny, Bunny Peekaboo
Grace Habib (Illus.), Campbell Books, $9.99, 9781035045358
8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
9. Little Freddie Two Pants: (The Dog with Too Many Pants)
Drew Daywalt, Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593691427
10. Mostly What God Does Is Love You
Savannah Guthrie, Morgan Huff (Illus.), Zonderkidz, $19.99, 9780310160281
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Oathbound
Tracy Deonn, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665951906
2. Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889
3. The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
4. A Song for You and I: A Graphic Novel
K. O'Neill, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593182307
5. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
6. The Prisoner's Throne
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316592710
7. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
8. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
9. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062991324
10. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544340688
 
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. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
4. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
6. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
8. Dog Man and Cat Kid
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741063
9. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835618
10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477