BOOKS

Local bestsellers for the week ended April 20

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

April 23rd, 2025, 5:05 PM

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. James Percival Everett Doubleday

2. The God of the Woods Liz Moore Riverhead Books

3. Heartwood Amity Gaige Simon & Schuster

4. The Wedding People Alison Espach Henry Holt and Co

5. Say You’ll Remember Me Abby Jimenez Forever

6. Audition Katie Kitamura Riverhead Books

7. The Antidote Karen Russell Knopf

8. Strangers in Time David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing

9. Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall Simon & Schuster

10. Small Things Like These Claire Keegan Grove Press

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

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

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

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

8. The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward Melinda French Gates Flatiron Books

9. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad Knopf

10. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Russell Shorto W. W. Norton & Company

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon Vintage

2. Tom Lake Ann Patchett Harper Perennial

3. North Woods Daniel Mason Random House Trade Paperbacks

4. Table for Two: Fictions Amor Towles Penguin Books

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

6. Orbital Samantha Harvey Grove Press

7. Martyr! Kaveh Akbar Vintage

8. The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters Catapult

9. Funny Story Emily Henry Berkley

10. Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros Entangled: Red Tower Books

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

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

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

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

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

5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan Knopf

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

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

8. There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib Random House Trade Paperbacks

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

10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk M.D. Penguin

The New England Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NEIBA, for the week ended Sunday, April 20, 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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