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: 7/21/2024
Week Ending 7/21/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
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#1 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#2 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
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#3 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#4 The Bright Sword
By Lev Grossman (Viking)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
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#5 I Was A Teenage Slasher
By Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
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#6 Sandwich
By Catherine Newman (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
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#7 The Briar Club
By Kate Quinn (William Morrow)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
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#8 All the Colors of the Dark
By Chris Whitaker (Crown)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#9 The Black Bird Oracle
By Deborah Harkness (Ballantine Books)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
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#10 Same As It Ever Was
By Claire Lombardo (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#11 A Death in Cornwall
By Daniel Silva (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
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#12 The Spellshop
By Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
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#13 Long Island Compromise
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#14 Funny Story
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
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#15 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
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#1 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#2 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
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#3 On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By Anthony Fauci, M.D. (Viking)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
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#4 An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
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#5 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
By James Clear (Avery)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
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#6 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
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#7 The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By Griffin Dunne (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#8 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#9 True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between
By Gretchen Whitmer (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
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#10 Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
By Ferris Jabr (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
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#11 Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor (Zando-Crooked Media Reads)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
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#12 Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
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#13 The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By Boyce Upholt (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
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#14 Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By Liz Cheney (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book
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#15 Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives
By Susan Tomes (Yale University Press)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
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#1 Just for the Summer
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
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#2 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
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#3 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
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#4 Not in Love
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
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#5 The Three-Body Problem
By Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.) (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
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#6 The Exchange
By John Grisham (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
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#7 The House in the Cerulean Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
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#8 The Nightingale
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
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#9 Good Night, Irene
By Luis Alberto Urrea (Back Bay)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
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#10 The Song of Achilles
By Madeline Miller (Ecco)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
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#11 The Au Pair Affair
By Tessa Bailey (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
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#12 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
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#13 The House on Mango Street
By Sandra Cisneros (Vintage )
Price: $12.95 / Get the Book
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#14 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
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#15 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Atria)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
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#1 What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
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#2 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
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#3 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
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#4 A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By Timothy Egan (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
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#5 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
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#6 World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illus.) (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
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#7 Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
By Matthew Perry (Flatiron Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
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#8 The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By David Von Drehle (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
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#9 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
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#10 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
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#11 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
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#12 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
By Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
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#13 Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
By Stephen E. Ambrose (Touchstone)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
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#14 Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By Ilyon Woo (37 Ink)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
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#15 Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By Simon Winchester (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
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#1 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
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#2 Rhythm of War
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
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#3 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
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#4 A Game of Thrones
By George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
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#5 Fire & Blood
By George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
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#6 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
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#7 The Hero of Ages
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
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#8 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
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#9 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
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#10 Before We Were Yours
By Lisa Wingate (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
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#1 Bluey: The Pool
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $4.99 / Get the Book
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#2 Where's Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection
By Martin Handford (Candlewick)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
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#3 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
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#4 Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
By Christy Mandin (Orchard Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
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#5 Woodland Dance!
By Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illus.) (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
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#6 Bluey: The Beach
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $4.99 / Get the Book
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#7 Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
By Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
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#8 The Digger and the Dark
By Joseph Kuefler (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
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#9 Where's Waldo Now?
By Martin Handford (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
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#10 Where's Waldo? In Hollywood
By Martin Handford (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
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#1 Five Survive
By Holly Jackson (Ember)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
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#2 The Reappearance of Rachel Price
By Holly Jackson (Delacorte Press)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
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#3 The One and Only Family
By Katherine Applegate (Harper)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
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#4 They Call Me No Sam!
By Drew Daywalt, Mike Lowery (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
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#5 Invisible: A Graphic Novel
By Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Gabriela Epstein (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
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#6 The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
By Cassandra Calin (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
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#7 Powerless
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
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#8 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
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#9 Reckless
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
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#10 The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
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#1 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
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#2 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
By Holly Jackson (Ember)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
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#3 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
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#4 The Bad Guys in the Serpent and the Beast (The Bad Guys, #19)
By Aaron Blabey (Scholastic)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
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#5 Always Anthony (Emmie & Friends, #8)
By Terri Libenson (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
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#6 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
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#7 The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
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#8 Narwhal's Sweet Tooth (A Narwhal and Jelly Book, #9)
By Ben Clanton (Tundra Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
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#9 Dog Man Unleashed
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
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#10 Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
By Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book