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 3/26/23
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

#2 Hello Beautiful
By Ann Napolitano (The Dial Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

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

#4 I Have Some Questions for You
By Rebecca Makkai (Viking)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#5 Pineapple Street
By Jenny Jackson (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 The White Lady
By Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#8 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#9 Storm Watch
By C.J. Box (Putnam)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

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

#11 The London Séance Society
By Sarah Penner (Park Row)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 A Day of Fallen Night
By Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#13 Horse
By Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#14 Mad Honey
By Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan (Ballantine)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#15 How to Sell a Haunted House
By Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

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

#3 It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By Bernie Sanders, John Nichols (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

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

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

#6 Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By Katherine May (Riverhead Books)
Price: $26 / Get the Book

#7 Wake Up with Purpose!: What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years
By Jean Dolores Schmidt (Harper Select)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#8 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
By James Clear (Avery)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#9 Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
By Benjamin Hall (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#10 Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
By Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

#11 Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
By Oliver Darkshire (Norton)
Price: $27.95 / Get the Book

#12 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
By Michelle Zauner (Knopf)
Price: $26.95 / Get the Book

#13 The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By Dan Egan (Norton)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By Ari Shapiro (HarperOne)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#15 Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By Lynne Olson (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 Daisy Jones & The Six
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#5 The Song of Achilles
By Madeline Miller (Ecco)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Last Thing He Told Me
By Laura Dave (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#7 Never Never
By Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher (Canary Street Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Candy House
By Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Lincoln Highway
By Amor Towles (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#10 One Italian Summer
By Rebecca Serle (Atria Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#11 The Diamond Eye
By Kate Quinn (Morrow )
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#12 Women Talking
By Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#13 The Paris Apartment
By Lucy Foley (Morrow)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#14 It Ends with Us
By Colleen Hoover (Atria)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Priory of the Orange Tree
By Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
TRADE 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 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#3 These Precious Days: Essays
By Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 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

#5 Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By Dr. Anna Lembke (Dutton)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#6 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green (Dutton)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe
By Frank Murphy (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Advice from Dear Sugar
By Cheryl Strayed (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#9 The Nineties: A Book
By Chuck Klosterman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#10 How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3)
By Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book

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

#12 Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore
By Patric Richardson, Karin B. Miller (Flatiron Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#14 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#15 Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood
By Qian Julie Wang (Anchor)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 The Slow Regard of Silent Things
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $13 / Get the Book

#2 Storm Front
By Jim Butcher (Roc)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#4 Murder on the Red River
By Marcie R. Rendon (Soho Crime)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#5 And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie (Morrow)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Ballantine)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Hunting Party
By Lucy Foley (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#9 Hamlet
By William Shakespeare (S&S)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Color of Magic
By Terry Pratchett (Harper)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Hot Dog
By Doug Salati (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Three Billy Goats Gruff
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Orchard Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Egg Hunt
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 Bluey: The Pool
By (Penguin Young Readers )
Price: $4.99 / Get the Book

#7 Indestructibles: The Wheels on the Bus
By Amy Pixton, Vanja Kragulj (Illus.) (Workman)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#8 Happy Easter, Little Pookie
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#9 Blue Hat, Green Hat
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#10 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.) (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 Leeva at Last
By Sara Pennypacker, Matthew Cordell (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 Bea Wolf
By Zach Weinersmith, Boulet (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 Nick and Charlie
By Alice Oseman (Scholastic Press)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#4 Matilda
By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.) (Puffin)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#5 The War That Saved My Life
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Puffin)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#6 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#7 Bridge to Terabithia
By Katherine Paterson (HarperFestival)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#8 Squished: A Graphic Novel
By Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 Five Survive
By Holly Jackson (Delacorte Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Moth Keeper: A Graphic Novel
By K. O'Neill (Random House Graphic)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

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

#2 King of Scars
By Leigh Bardugo (Square Fish)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations (Cat Kid Comic Club, #4)
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#7 Pizza and Taco: Best Party Ever!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best?: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book