SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER LIST
For the week ending 9/17/2023

Edelweiss Collections:
(sort by "Catalog Order" to see each list according to rating)

Hardcover Fiction | Hardcover Nonfiction | Trade Paperback Fiction | Trade Paperback Nonfiction | Mass Market | Children's Illustrated | Children's Interest | Children's Series

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30, 9780063327528
2. Holly
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668016138
3. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
4. The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593418390
5. The Fraud
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $29, 9780525558965
6. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
8. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
10. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
11. The River We Remember
William Kent Krueger, Atria Books, $28.99, 9781982179212
12. What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama, Hanover Square Press, $21.99, 9781335005625
13. Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon, Morrow, $30, 9780063315044
14. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
15. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $27, 9780593441275
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
2. Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982181284
3. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey, Portfolio, $30, 9780593545409
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Knopf, $28, 9780525657323
5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
6. Talking to My Angels
Melissa Etheridge, Harper Wave, $30, 9780063257450
7. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
Joe Posnanski, Dutton, $29, 9780593472675
8. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
9. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
10. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598
11. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey Nyx Walker, National Geographic, $30, 9781426223303
12. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future
Franklin Foer, Penguin Press, $30, 9781101981146
13. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
14. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
Billy Walters, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668032855
15. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
Bernie Taupin, Hachette Books, $32.50, 9780306828676
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Ballantine, $18, 9781984818409
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
3. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
5. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
6. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
7. Things We Left Behind
Lucy Score, Bloom Books, $18.99, 9781728276120
8. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
9. The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $17, 9780593315088
10. A Court of Frost and Starlight
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17, 9781635575620
11. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781639730957
12. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
13. Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $18, 9780593446089
14. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173
15. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
3. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage, $25, 9780375726262
4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
5. Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316392433
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
8. The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
John Railey, History Press, $23.99, 9781467147392
9. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $20, 9780593133255
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
11. A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.), Verso, $19.95, 9781804290446
12. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $17.99, 9781451697728
13. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228
14. Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17, 9780593315200
15. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
4. Steal
James Patterson, Howard Roughan, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538720752
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
8. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765365279
9. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
10. The Stand
Stephen King, Anchor, $10.99, 9780593313886
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
2. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. Just Because
Matthew McConaughey, Renée Kurilla (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593622032
5. Peekaboo: Pumpkin (Peekaboo You)
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229813
6. Bluey: What Games Should We Play?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Tallulah May, Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593658420
7. Eek! Halloween!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665925143
8. Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Boo!
Wade Bradford, Tom Brannon (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593643532
9. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
2. The Dreamatics
Michelle Cuevas, Rocky Pond Books, $18.99, 9780593532225
3. Hell Followed with Us
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $12.99, 9781682635636
4. Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464
5. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Katherine Tegen Books, $16.99, 9780063084087
6. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $19.99, 9781682636114
7. Freewater
Amina Luqman-Dawson, Jimmy Patterson, $8.99, 9780316056670
8. Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Everything: The Ultimate Guide to the World Around You
DK Children, $29.99, 9780744084702
9. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $7.99, 9780062895943
10. Island of Spies
Sheila Turnage, Dial Books, $18.99, 9780735231252
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
2. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
3. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $5.99, 9780679824114
4. We'll Always Have Summer (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781416995593
5. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910
6. The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316480772
7. Karen's Haircut: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #7)
Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762624
8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
C.S. Lewis, HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780060765460
9. The Bad Guys (The Bad Guys, #1)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $5.99, 9780545912402
10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $8.99, 9781368051477