The Midwest Indie Bestseller List
Explore the bestselling titles in indie bookstores throughout our region
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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: 4/14/2024
Week Ending 4/14/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Familiar
By Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#2 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#3 Table for Two: Fictions
By Amor Towles (Viking)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 I Cheerfully Refuse
By Leif Enger (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Husbands
By Holly Gramazio (Doubleday)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#8 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 The Hunter
By Tana French (Viking)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#11 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#12 Expiration Dates
By Rebecca Serle (Atria Books)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#13 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#14 Wandering Stars
By Tommy Orange (Knopf)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#15 Toxic Prey
By John Sandford (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#2 Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 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
#4 The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#5 The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By Amanda Montell (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 Star Wars: Dad Jokes: The Best Worst Jokes and Puns from a Galaxy Far, Far Away . . . .
By Kelly Knox, Johnny Sampson (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#8 The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By James Patterson, Matt Eversmann (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
By Savannah Guthrie (Thomas Nelson)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#10 Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By Kao Kalia Yang (Atria Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#11 Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By Austin Frerick (Island Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#12 Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By Rachel Maddow (Crown)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By David Brooks (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By Lyz Lenz (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Just for the Summer
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#2 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.) (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#4 The Three-Body Problem
By Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.) (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By Benjamin Stevenson (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#7 West with Giraffes
By Lynda Rutledge (Lake Union Publishing)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#8 Throne of Glass
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 A Court of Mist and Fury
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#10 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 There There
By Tommy Orange (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#12 The Nightingale
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Dark Forest
By Cixin Liu (Tor )
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#14 Homecoming
By Kate Morton (Mariner Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#15 Bride
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#5 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#6 Healing After Loss
By Martha W. Hickman (Morrow)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
By Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms
By Teresa Marrone, Kathy Yerich (Adventure Publications)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#9 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
#10 The Cello Still Sings: A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music
By Janet Horvath (Amsterdam Publishers)
Price: $23.95 / Get the Book
#11 The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
By Morgan Housel (Harriman House)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#12 Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
By Steve Almond (Zando)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
By Jamaica Kincaid (Ed.) (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#14 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Likes to Walk Outside
By Nick Offerman (Dutton)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#15 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
MASS MARKET
#1 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 Julius Caesar
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 Good Omens
By Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 Children of Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 God Emperor of Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Buffalo Fluffalo
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
By Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#3 Treehouse Town
By Gideon Sterer, Charlie Mylie (Illus.) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Ahoy!
By Sophie Blackall (Anne Schwartz Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Bluey: What Games Should We Play?
By Tallulah May (Penguin Young Readers )
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
By Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.) (HarperFestival)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
By Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.) (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE
#2 Divine Rivals
By Rebecca Ross (Wednesday Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Northwind
By Gary Paulsen (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 A Wolf Called Wander
By Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Olivetti
By Allie Millington (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#7 Smile: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Secret Language of Birds
By Lynne Kelly (Delacorte Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Last Cuentista
By Donna Barba Higuera (Levine Querido)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES
#1 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was/Is...?)
By Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.) (Penguin Workshop)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#3 Pizza and Taco: Rock Out!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 Pizza and Taco: Best Party Ever!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse
By John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
By Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 Pizza and Taco: Too Cool for School: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #9)
By Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1)
By Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book