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
Week Ending 9/17/23
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 The River We Remember
By William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#2 Tom Lake
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#3 Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#4 The Vaster Wilds
By Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#5 The Fraud
By Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#6 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#7 The Covenant of Water
By Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#8 Holly
By Stephen King (Scribner)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book

#10 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#11 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#12 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#13 Rouge
By Mona Awad (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#14 The Secret Hours
By Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
Price: $27.95 / Get the Book

#15 The Last Ranger
By Peter Heller (Knopf)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 Elon Musk
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#2 Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey (Portfolio)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#3 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#4 Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
By B. Dylan Hollis (DK)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#5 I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#7 Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
By Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford (Harmony)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#8 Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair
By Mercury Stardust (DK)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book

#9 To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
By Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey Nyx Walker (National Geographic)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#10 The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By David Von Drehle (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $26 / Get the Book

#11 First Gen: A Memoir
By Alejandra Campoverdi (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#12 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#13 Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#15 Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By Joe Posnanski (Dutton)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#2 Trust
By Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#3 The Maid
By Nita Prose (Ballantine)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 Nona the Ninth
By Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square Press)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#6 The Winners
By Fredrik Backman (Washington Square Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#7 Babel
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#8 Killers of a Certain Age
By Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#9 This Is How You Lose the Time War
By Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone (Gallery/Saga Press)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#10 A Court of Mist and Fury
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#11 The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#12 Assistant to the Villain
By Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#13 Devotions
By Mary Oliver (Penguin)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#14 Mad Honey
By Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan (Ballantine)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#15 The Dead Romantics
By Ashley Poston (Berkley)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

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

#3 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
By Michelle Zauner (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#4 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By Ed Yong (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

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

#6 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin (Vintage)
Price: $25 / Get the Book

#7 The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
By Buzz Bissinger (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#8 Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By Susan Cain (Crown)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#9 River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By Candice Millard (Anchor)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#10 The Baseball 100
By Joe Posnanski (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $25 / Get the Book

#11 Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
By Stephen E. Ambrose (Touchstone)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book

#12 No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. (Sounds True)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#13 How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
By The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers (Crown)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#14 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

#15 The Myth of Sisyphus
By Albert Camus (Vintage)
Price: $16 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#2 American Gods
By Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#5 Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe (Signet)
Price: $5.95 / Get the Book

#6 Heartsick
By Chelsea Cain (Minotaur )
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 King Lear
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 The Hunting Party
By Lucy Foley (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Bruce and the Legend of Soggy Hollow
By Ryan T. Higgins (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 Bluey: What Games Should We Play?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
By Tallulah May (Penguin Young Readers )
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 Just Because
By Matthew McConaughey, Renée Kurilla (Illus.) (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 Boo! Bluey's Halloween
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#5 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 Eek! Halloween!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#8 Indestructibles: Baby, See the Colors!
By Ekaterina Trukhan (Illus.) (Workman)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#9 Indestructibles: Baby, Let's Count!
By Ekaterina Trukhan (Illus.) (Workman)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#10 Creepy Crayon!
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 A Horse Named Sky
By Rosanne Parry, Kirbi Fagan (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Dreamatics
By Michelle Cuevas (Rocky Pond Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
By Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 Divine Rivals
By Rebecca Ross (Wednesday Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 If He Had Been with Me
By Laura Nowlin (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#6 Cat on the Run in Cat of Death! (Cat on the Run #1)
By Aaron Blabey (Scholastic)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#7 Iceberg
By Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
By Sonora Reyes (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
By Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.) (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#10 Linked
By Gordon Korman (Scholastic )
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Hooky Volume 3
By Míriam Bonastre Tur (Clarion Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#2 Hooky Volume 2
By Míriam Bonastre Tur (Clarion Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, Book 2)
By Leigh Bardugo (Square Fish)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#5 A Super Scary Narwhalloween (A Narwhal and Jelly Book, #8)
By Ben Clanton (Tundra Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Summer I Turned Pretty
By Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#7 I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived Graphic Novel #8)
By Lauren Tarshis, Leo Trinidad (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 Six of Crows
By Leigh Bardugo (Square Fish)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#9 Witches of Brooklyn: Spell of a Time: (A Graphic Novel)
By Sophie Escabasse (Random House Graphic)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book