The Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bestseller List

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The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.
 
Here is the Indie Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending April 14, 2019.
 
1. Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780735220171
 
2. The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006
 
3. Fire & Blood
George R.R. Martin, Doug Wheatley (Illus.), Bantam, $35, 9781524796280
 
4. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
 
5. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229296
 
6. Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman, Norton, $15.95, 9780393356182
 
7. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
 
8. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
 
9. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $19.99, 9780062572233
 
10. Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi, Riverhead Books, $27, 9781594634659
 
11. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, S&S, $15.99, 9781451673319
 
12. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Penguin, $17, 9780143119685
 
13. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Tor, $16.99, 9780765382030
 
14. The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury, $32, 9781635570298
 
15. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
 
16. The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders, Tor, $26.99, 9780765379962
 
17. The Passage
Justin Cronin, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780525618744
 
18. The Obelisk Gate
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229265
 
19. The Bird King
G. Willow Wilson, Grove Press, $26, 9780802129031
 
20. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16, 9780804190138
 
21. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $16, 9780804172448
 
22. The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo, Flatiron Books, $26.99, 9781250175458
 
23. The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $16.99, 9780316229241
 
24. The City of Brass
S.A. Chakraborty, Harper Voyager, $16.99, 9780062678119
 
25. Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555977887