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: 3/8/2026








Week Ending 3/8/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Kate Quinn (William Morrow)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#3 Carl's Doomsday Scenario
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 Between Two Fires
By Christopher Buehlman (Tor Nightfire)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#5 Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
By Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#6 Kin
By Tayari Jones (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 Vigil
By George Saunders (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#8 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 Operation Bounce House
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 Dog Show: Poems
By Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.) (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Crossroads
By C.J. Box (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 My Husband's Wife
By Alice Feeney (Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#14 More Than Enough
By Anna Quindlen (Random House)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#15 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
By Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower (Ballantine Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
By Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $13 / Get the Book
#4 A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
By Michael Pollan (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#5 Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
By John Fugelsang (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#6 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 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
#8 American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
By Jon Meacham (Random House)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#9 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#10 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#11 We Are the World (Cup): A Personal History of the World's Greatest Sporting Event
By Roger Bennett (Dey Street Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#13 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
By Gavin Newsom (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 Heated Rivalry
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
By Emily Brontë (Penguin Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 Strange Buildings
By Uketsu (HarperVia)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Long Game
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#11 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#12 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 Game Changer
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#15 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 Raising Hare: A Memoir
By Chloe Dalton (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#2 Dish and Tell: Recipes from the Heart
By Sarah Peterson (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Price: $24.95 / Get the Book
#3 The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#4 The Fire Next Time
By James Baldwin (Vintage)
Price: $16 / Get the Book
#5 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 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
#7 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
By Kate Moore (Sourcebooks)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
By Elise Loehnen (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
By Elyse Graham (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#11 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By Anthony Bourdain (Ecco)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / Get the Book
#13 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#14 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#15 Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
By Olivia Campbell (Park Row)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#3 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 Night Shift
By Stephen King (Vintage)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#10 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 Goodnight, Bruce
By Ryan Higgins (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Future Book
By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Plenty of Pancakes
By Carrie Finison, Brianne Farley (Illus.) (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Jamberry
By Bruce Degen (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book
#10 For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
By Golden Books (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Lions' Run
By Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#4 Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
By A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.) (Aladdin)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
By Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Storytide)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dragonborn
By Struan Murray (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
By Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.) (Rocky Pond Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Book Thief (Anniversary Edition)
By Markus Zusak (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#10 Betting on You
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire, Book 16)
By Tui T. Sutherland (Scholastic Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#3 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#4 Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble
By John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 Europa (City Spies, #7)
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived Graphic Novel #13)
By Lauren Tarshis, Cassie Anderson (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
