The Indie Biography and Memoir 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 Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 13, 2022.

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

2. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Nina Totenberg, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982188085

3. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham, Random House, $40, 9780553393965

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

5. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $28, 9780593498064

6. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
Buzz Bissinger, Harper, $32.50, 9780062879929

7. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Doubleday, $32, 9780385546539

8. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
Bono, Knopf, $34, 9780525521044

9. The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan, Simon & Schuster, $45, 9781451648706

10. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Matthew Perry, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250866448

11. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Paul Newman, Knopf, $32, 9780593534502

12. The Book of Delights: Essays
Ross Gay, Algonquin Books, $17.99, 9781643753287

13. Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe, Oni Press, $19.99, 9781549304002

14. Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir
Jann S. Wenner, Little, Brown, $35, 9780316415194

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

16. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780394747231

17. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316270182

18. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton, Drawn and Quarterly, $39.95, 9781770462892

19. Inciting Joy: Essays
Ross Gay, Algonquin Books, $27, 9781643753041

20. Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
Catherine Raven, Spiegel & Grau, $18, 9781954118119

21. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman, Henry Holt and Co., $32, 9781250847959

22. Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
Kelly Ripa, Dey Street Books, $28.99, 9780063073302

23. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $18.99, 9780062964625

24. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Stacy Schiff, Little, Brown, $35, 9780316441117

25. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, $32.50, 9781476748412