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The Midwest Indie Bestseller List demonstrates regional handselling expertise
What books are selling in the Midwest? You've come to the right place. Our weekly Midwest Indie Bestseller List is a collection of the top-selling adult and children's titles for both hardcover and paperback releases. The list is an excellent reflection of the regional tastes and handselling expertise of bookstores and readers throughout our region.
We release the list via email to 1,500 members throughout the industry every Wednesday afternoon (sometimes Thursday morning) and also post it here. We thank the American Booksellers Association for their generous work of compiling the data from indie bookstores across the country every week.
We release the list via email to 1,500 members throughout the industry every Wednesday afternoon (sometimes Thursday morning) and also post it here. We thank the American Booksellers Association for their generous work of compiling the data from indie bookstores across the country every week.
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By reporting your weekly sales, you celebrate independent bookstores and prove that our sales channel is strong. Make your voice heard, bring attention to regional authors, stay relevant in the halls of publishers and the minds of authors, and create indie bookstore buzz in-store, in print, and online.
Use our printable, colorful bestseller list for store displays Each week, we create and distribute the beautiful bestseller list you see above. The more bookstores who use this list, the stronger our sales efforts will be.
Download the list as CSV files to create a Bookshop.org list on your store's Bookshop page. The list has been separated into ready-to-upload files.
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Booksellers, we ask you to please report your weekly sales!
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Week ending 9/13/20
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Anxious People Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837 2. All the Devils Are Here Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239 3. Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184 4. The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291 5. The Lying Life of Adults Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26, 9781609455910 6. One by One Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $27.99, 9781501188817 7. Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452 8. What Are You Going Through Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $26, 9780593191415 9. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090 10. The Guest List Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062868930 11. Northernmost Peter Geye, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525655756 12. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $26, 9780525562023 13. Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606 14. The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $28, 9780525429760 15. The Exiles Christina Baker Kline, Custom House, $27.99, 9780062356345 HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Caste Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251 2. Disloyal: A Memoir Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699 3. How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288 4. Eat a Peach: A Memoir David Chang, Gabe Ulla, Clarkson Potter, $28, 9781524759216 5. Just Us: An American Conversation Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, $30, 9781644450215 6. Untamed Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258 7. Vesper Flights Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27, 9780802128812 8. Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump Peter Strzok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780358237068 9. His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham, Random House, $30, 9781984855022 10. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547 11. Too Much and Never Enough Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28, 9781982141462 12. Melania and Me Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982151249 13. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 14. Hoax Brian Stelter, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28, 9781982142445 15. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illus.), Milkweed Editions, $25, 9781571313652 TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 1. Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182 2. This Tender Land William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17, 9781476749303 3. Circe Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323 4. The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341 5. Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166 6. The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern, Anchor, $16.95, 9781101971383 7. The Overstory Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687 8. Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062 9. The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624 10. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michele Richardson, Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99, 9781492671527 11. Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17, 9780802156983 12. Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson, Riverhead Books, $16, 9780525535287 13. City of Girls Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $17, 9781594634741 14. When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650 15. The Testaments Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627 TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827 2. My Grandmother's Hands Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470 3. Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, $19.99, 9781568585987 4. White Fragility Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415 5. The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932 6. Intimations Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612 7. The Color of Law Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536 8. The Fire Next Time James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726 9. The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888 10. The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 11. Born a Crime Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198 12. Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560 13. On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $9.99, 9780804190114 14. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $18, 9780553447453 15. The Truths We Hold Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18, 9780525560739 MASS MARKET 1. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719 2. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 3. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741 4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345514400 5. Arcanum Unbounded Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9780765391186 6. Dune Messiah Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688 8. Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 9. Hamlet William Shakespeare, Signet, $5.95, 9780451526922 10. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bantam Classics, $4.95, 9780553210095 CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 1. Antiracist Baby Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508 2. Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926 3. Wild Symphony Dan Brown, Susan Batori (Illus.), Rodale Kids, $18.99, 9780593123843 4. Ada Twist, Scientist Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $17.95, 9781419721373 5. Julián Is a Mermaid Jessica Love, Candlewick, $16.99, 9780763690458 6. I Am Every Good Thing Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780525518778 7. Every Night Is Pizza Night J.Kenji Lopez-Alt, Gianna Ruggiero (Illus.), Norton Young Readers, $17.95, 9781324005254 8. A Is for Activist Innosanto Nagara, Triangle Square, $11.95, 9781609805395 9. All Are Welcome Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780525579649 10. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780547366203 CHILDREN'S INTEREST 1. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691 2. New Kid Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194 3. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094 4. Guts Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500 5. Darius the Great Is Not Okay Adib Khorram, Penguin, $10.99, 9780525552970 6. Pet Akwaeke Emezi, Make Me a World, $17.99, 9780525647072 7. Matilda Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin, $7.99, 9780142410370 8. The One and Only Bob Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317 9. Brains On! Presents...It's Alive: From Neurons and Narwhals to the Fungus Among Us Molly Bloom, et al., Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316428293 10. Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas, Swoon Reads, $17.99, 9781250250469 CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 1. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338535624 2. Midnight Sun (Twilight) Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $27.99, 9780316707046 3. Logan Likes Mary Anne! (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #8) Ann M. Martin, Gale Galligan (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338304541 4. Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective) Alok Vaid-Menon, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $8.99, 9780593094655 5. Dory Fantasmagory: Tiny Tough Abby Hanlon, Puffin Books, $7.99, 9780525553984 6. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, Book One) Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic, $6.99, 9780545349239 7. Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers) Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $18.99, 9781419737046 8. The Memory of Babel: Book Three of the Mirror Visitor Quartet Christelle Dabos, Europa Editions, $20, 9781609456139 9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427 10. Warriors Super Edition: Graystripe's Vow Erin Hunter, Harper, $18.99, 9780062963024 |
Bookseller Karin Kimble of Valley Bookseller in Stillwater, MN, says the following about the Heartland List:
“We have a section in the store where the top 15 fiction and nonfiction, hardcover, and trade paper titles from the Heartland Indie Bestseller List are featured as Notable books. In the trade paper section, both fiction and nonfiction especially, this generates terrific sales for us. Customers see that display as they enter the front door. It’s almost a daily task to refill those shelves. The Heartland list reflects the interests of our customers better than the New York Times or West Coast lists.” Sue Ostfield, former sales and marketing director at Milkweed Editions, commented on the value of bookseller sales reports from the perspective of a publisher.
“It’s incredibly gratifying to see sales pop on Bookscan following a successful event or a great review. Bookscan sales help build recognition for an author and for a publisher’s program. I highly recommend that MIBA booksellers participate in sales reporting, especially for a house like Milkweed Editions, when so many of our authors and favorite hand-selling bookstores are located in the Midwest.” Sales reporting stores
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