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: 04/13/2025
Week Ending 04/13/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 Say You'll Remember Me
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

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

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

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

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

#6 The Sirens
By Emilia Hart (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#7 Audition
By Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#8 The Antidote
By Karen Russell (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 The Maid's Secret
By Nita Prose (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#10 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#11 Poems of Parenting
By Loryn Brantz (William Morrow)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#12 Gifted & Talented
By Olivie Blake (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#13 Twist
By Colum McCann (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#14 Heartwood
By Amity Gaige (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Butcher's Masquerade
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

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

#3 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

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

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

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

#7 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
By Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron Books)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book

#8 I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
By Maria Shriver (The Open Field)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#10 Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
By Maggie Smith (Washington Square Press)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#11 Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By Ina Garten (Crown)
Price: $34 / Get the Book

#12 Raising Hare: A Memoir
By Chloe Dalton (Pantheon)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#13 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book

#14 Every Day with Babs: 101 Family-Friendly Dinners for Every Day of the Week
By Barbara Costello (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#15 Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
By Elaine Pagels (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

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

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

#4 Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

#6 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Unworthy
By Agustina Bazterrica (Scribner)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

#11 The Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book

#12 The Four Winds
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Titanic Survivors Book Club
By Timothy Schaffert (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#14 Table for Two: Fictions
By Amor Towles (Penguin Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#15 Weyward
By Emilia Hart (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $19 / 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 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / 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 Sociopath: A Memoir
By Patric Gagne, Ph.D. (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#5 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#6 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By Daniel James Brown (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#7 On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.) (Ten Speed Graphic)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#8 Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By Cat Bohannon (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#9 Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
By Thich Nhat Hanh (HarperOne)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#10 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#11 The U.S. Constitution: Explained—Clause by Clause—for Every American Today
By Ray Raphael (Vintage)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#12 Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
By Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#13 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book

#14 You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
By Maggie Smith (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong
By john a. powell (Sounds True)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

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

#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#5 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#6 Much Ado About Nothing
By William Shakespeare (Washington Square Press)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Long Walk
By Stephen King (Pocket)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Hammer of God
By Arthur C. Clarke (Spectra)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#9 When Gods Die
By C.S. Harris (Berkley)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#10 Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day
By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Digger and the Flower
By Joseph Kuefler (HarperCollins)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 Knight Owl
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#9 Guess How Much I Love You
By Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#10 Richard Scarry's Bunnies
By Richard Scarry (Golden Books)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

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

#2 Wings of Starlight
By Allison Saft (Disney Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#4 One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe
By Dara Horn, Theo Ellsworth (Illus.) (Norton Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 Legendary and Mythical Guidebook: Deluxe Updated Edition (Pokémon)
By Scholastic (Scholastic)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#6 A Wolf Called Fire
By Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 Adventures Unlimited: You and Me and the Land of Lost Things
By Andy Griffiths, Bill Hope (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Liars Society: A Risky Game
By Alyson Gerber (Scholastic Press)
Price: $14.99 / 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 Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#3 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#4 Karen's Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #10)
By Ann M. Martin, Shauna J. Grant (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#5 Dog Man
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Bad Guys (The Bad Guys, #1)
By Aaron Blabey (Scholastic)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#8 Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#9 I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #11)
By Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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