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The Correspondent Virginia Evans Penguin Michael Joseph, 9780241721254


Departure(s) Julian Barnes Jonathan Cape, 9781787335721


Hooked Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (trans) 4th Estate, 9780008753832


Gabriel’s Moon William Boyd Viking, 9780241542088


On the Calculation of… S Balle; B Haveland (trans) Faber, 9780571383375


Fundamentally Nussaibah Younis Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9781399623940


I Who Have Never… J Harpman, R Schwartz (trans) Vintage, 9781529111798


What We Can Know Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 9781787335738


Butter Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (trans) 4th Estate, 9780008511715


A Family Matter Claire Lynch Vintage, 9781529942354


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My Friends Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith (trans) Simon & Schuster, 9781398516434


The Women Kristin Hannah Pan, 9781035005697


Slow Horses Mick Herron Baskerville, 9781399803052


The Party Tessa Hadley Vintage, 9781529949315


Orbital Samantha Harvey Vintage, 9781529922936


A Long Winter Colm Tóibín Picador, 9781035079841


All Fours Miranda July Canongate, 9781838853488


Intermezzo Sally Rooney Faber, 9780571365487


Slags Emma Jane Unsworth The Borough Press, 9780008347253


Drive Your… O Tokarczuk, A Lloyd-Jones (trans) Fitzcarraldo Editions, 9781913097257


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The Hotel Avocado Bob Mortimer Gallery, 9781398529656


The Glassmaker Tracy Chevalier The Borough Press, 9780008153892


The Names Florence Knapp Phoenix, 9781399624022


Eurotrash Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles (trans) Serpent’s Tail, 9781805226598


Small Things Like These Claire Keegan Faber, 9780571368709


The Lamb Lucy Rose Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9781399619752


The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken (trans) Viking, 9780241752746


Nesting Roisín O’Donnell Scribner, 9781398528567


The Satsuma Complex Bob Mortimer Simon & Schuster, 9781398521230


The Predicament William Boyd Viking, 9780241761137


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It does provide the ranking though, and at the top of the list is the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller ( 1) – one of 41 titles from the General & Literary Fiction (G&LF) category that has made it onto the Indie Top 50 list. It is not a surprise to see the category doing so well; it does tend to over- index for indie bookshops, but it has outperformed compared with the same time period across 2024-25, when just 34 titles represented G&LF. What of McFadden? Surely her


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88,652 TCM copies sold


Elif Shafak ( 2) There Are Rivers in the Sky Penguin, £9.99, 9780241988749 At this point in 2025, Shafak had three different entries in the Indie Top 50 – fast-forward a year and that number has reduced to just one. However, third place for There Are Rivers in the Sky over a year since it was published more than compensates. Shafak’s latest is one of eight titles to have appeared in this indie bookshop Top 50 and the equivalent chart back in 2026.


80,175 TCM copies sold


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David Szalay Flesh Vintage, £9.99, 9781529932423 The Booker Prize-winning Flesh is one of two titles – alongside Florence Knapp’s The Names – to feature in the Indie Top 50 twice, with both the hardback and paperback formats popping up. Flesh is not the only Booker winner on the list – Samantha Harvey’s Orbital appears for a second year running.


thrillers make up the other nine slots? Bad news for the Boston- based author: despite having 14 titles in the UK-wide Top 50, none of those makes it into the indie ranking. In fact, in the list of the Top 200 bestselling fiction titles for indie bookshops, McFadden appears only once – in 55th place with The Housemaid. Only three authors have more


than one entry with the indies, led by Bob Mortimer, who finds all three of his fiction titles appearing in both the full TCM Top 50 and the indie equivalent. Florence Knapp’s The Names appears twice in both charts, with both the hardback and the paperback proving popular, while Asako Yuzuki’s Butter and Hooked – both translated by Polly Barton – have been a hit with indie book- shops, though the latter has failed to make it into the UK-wide Top 50.


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