BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended April 13

Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.

April 16th, 2025, 12:43 PM

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Heartwood Amity Gaige Simon & Schuster

2. Audition Katie Kitamura Riverhead Books

3. Twist Colum McCann Random House

4. Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall Simon & Schuster

5. Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy Flatiron Books

6. Dream Count Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Knopf

7. The Wedding People Alison Espach Henry Holt and Co

8. The God of the Woods Liz Moore Riverhead Books

9. James Percival Everett Doubleday

10. Say You’ll Remember Me Abby Jimenez Forever

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Abundance Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster

2. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About Mel Robbins Hay House LLC

3. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection John Green Crash Course Books

4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (illus.) Scribner

5. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service Michael Lewis (Ed.) Riverhead Books

6. Raising Hare: A Memoir Chloe Dalton Pantheon

7. When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines Graydon Carter Penguin Press

8. Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus Elaine Pagels Doubleday

9. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism Sarah Wynn-Williams Flatiron Books

10. The Tell: A Memoir Amy Griffin The Dial Press

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon Vintage

2. Table for Two: Fictions Amor Towles Penguin Books

3. The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster

4. North Woods Daniel Mason Random House Trade Paperbacks

5. Tom Lake Ann Patchett Harper Perennial

6. Funny Story Emily Henry Berkley

7. Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus Vintage

8. Orbital Samantha Harvey Grove Press

9. The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters Catapult

10. Martyr! Kaveh Akbar Vintage

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder Crown

2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann Vintage

3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions

4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan Knopf

5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Michael Finkel Vintage

6. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Patrick Bringley Simon & Schuster

7. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition Julia Cameron TarcherPerigee

8. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever Matt Kracht Chronicle Book

9. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin

10. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017 Rashid Khalidi Metropolitan Books

The New England Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NEIBA, for the week ended Sunday, April 13, 2025. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

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