The Midwest Indie Bestseller List
Explore the bestselling titles in indie bookstores throughout our region
Looking for something good to read? 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 handselling expertise of booksellers and the taste of readers throughout our region. We release the list via email to 1,500 members throughout the industry every Wednesday afternoon. We thank the American Booksellers Association for their generous work of compiling the data from indie bookstores across the country every week.
This week's top titles: 06/01/2025
Week Ending 06/01/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 Never Flinch
By Stephen King (Scribner)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#2 The Emperor of Gladness
By Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#3 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#4 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#5 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 Fever Beach
By Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#7 Nightshade
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#8 The Devils
By Joe Abercrombie (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#9 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#10 The Knight and the Moth
By Rachel Gillig (Orbit)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#11 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#13 Strangers in Time
By David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#15 Broken Country
By Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#2 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#3 We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
By Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle (The Dial Press)
Price: $34 / Get the Book

#4 The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
By Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins (Hay House LLC)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#5 Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
By Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#6 Mark Twain
By Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
Price: $45 / Get the Book

#7 The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
By Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#8 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#9 Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
By Steve Martin (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#10 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#11 Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
By Michael Lewis (Ed.) (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
By Rick Atkinson (Crown)
Price: $42 / Get the Book

#13 Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
By Leah Litman (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#14 Is a River Alive?
By Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $31.99 / Get the Book

#15 Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
By Dave Hage, Josephine Marcotty (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 Problematic Summer Romance
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#2 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 One Golden Summer
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#4 Sandwich
By Catherine Newman (Harper Perennial)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#6 The Tenant
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#7 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#8 Parable of the Sower
By Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 Funny Story
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#10 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#11 The Ministry of Time
By Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 It's a Love Story
By Annabel Monaghan (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#13 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#14 I Cheerfully Refuse
By Leif Enger (Grove Press)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#15 The Spellshop
By Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#2 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#3 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#5 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#6 Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
By Kathleen DuVal (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $25 / Get the Book

#7 Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More
By Mike Bezemek (Sourcebooks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#9 White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#10 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#11 The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo
By Karen Babine (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#12 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#13 Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#14 The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#15 Man's Search for Meaning
By Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
Price: $16 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#2 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Laurel Leaf)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#4 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#5 'Salem's Lot
By Stephen King (Anchor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#6 God Emperor of Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#7 Warbreaker
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#9 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#10 And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Will the Pigeon Graduate?
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#4 Oh, the Places You'll Go!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 Buffalo Fluffalo
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#6 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#7 Knight Owl and Early Bird
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book

#9 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#10 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#2 The First State of Being
By Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 The One and Only Ruby
By Katherine Applegate (Storytide)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#5 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#7 Skunk and Badger
By Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
By Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#9 National Geographic Kids Almanac 2026
By National Geographic Kids (National Geographic Kids)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (A Graphic Novel)
By John Hendrix (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 Stuck (A Click Graphic Novel, #7)
By Kayla Miller (Clarion Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#4 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#5 Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
By Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
By John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
By Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

#10 Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
By Annie Barrows (Chronicle)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book