3. The River Is Waiting Wally Lamb S&S/Marysue Rucci Books
4. The Emperor of Gladness Ocean Vuong Penguin Press
5. My Friends Fredrik Backman Atria Books
6. James Percival Everett Doubleday
7. Never Flinch Stephen King Scribner
8. The First Gentleman James Patterson, Bill Clinton Little, Brown and Company
9. Fever Beach Carl Hiaasen Knopf
10. Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry Berkley
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Mark Twain Ron Chernow Penguin Press
2. Abundance Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
3. Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson Penguin Press
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (illus.) Scribner
5. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection John Green Crash Course Books
6. Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane W.W. Norton & Company
7. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 Rick Atkinson Crown
8. The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour James Patterson Little, Brown and Company
9. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About Mel Robbins Hay House LLC
10. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin Steve Martin Grand Central Publishing
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Sandwich Catherine Newman Harper Perennial
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt Ecco
3. One Golden Summer Carley Fortune Berkley
4. The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters Catapult
5. All Fours Miranda July Riverhead Books
6. Martyr! Kaveh Akbar Vintage
7. The Frozen River Ariel Lawhon Vintage
8. North Woods Daniel Mason Random House Trade Paperbacks
9. Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver Harper Perennial
10. The Ministry of Time Kaliane Bradley Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann Vintage
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder Crown
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions
4. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Zoë Schlanger Harper Perennial
5. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hampton Sides Vintage
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Michael Finkel Vintage
7. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir Griffin Dunne Penguin Books
8. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 Rick Atkinson Holt Paperbacks
9. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever Matt Kracht Chronicle Book
10. The Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan Knopf
The New England Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and NEIBA, for the week ended Sunday, June 15, 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.
