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: 3/10/2024
Week Ending 3/10/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 Wandering Stars
By Tommy Orange (Knopf)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#2 The Hunter
By Tana French (Viking)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#3 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Iron Flame
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#6 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#7 After Annie
By Anna Quindlen (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#9 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#10 A Fate Inked in Blood
By Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#12 Tom Lake
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Prophet Song
By Paul Lynch (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#14 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 First Lie Wins
By Ashley Elston (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#2 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#3 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 Grief Is for People
By Sloane Crosley (MCD)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#5 Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
By Savannah Guthrie (Thomas Nelson)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#6 The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
By RuPaul (Dey Street Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#7 Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By Liz Cheney (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book
#8 Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 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
#10 The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#11 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
#12 Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
By Philippa Gregory (HarperOne)
Price: $39.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#14 Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By Charles Duhigg (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By Lyz Lenz (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#2 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By Benjamin Stevenson (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Song of Achilles
By Madeline Miller (Ecco)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#4 Happy Place
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 Bride
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 Throne of Glass
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#7 There There
By Tommy Orange (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#8 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 Icebreaker
By Hannah Grace (Atria)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#10 Weyward
By Emilia Hart (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#11 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Atria)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#12 Chain Gang All-Stars
By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 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
#15 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / 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 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By Daniel James Brown (Penguin)
Price: $19 / 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 Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
By Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#7 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#8 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#9 Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By Laurence Leamer (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 Upstream: Selected Essays
By Mary Oliver (Penguin)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#11 The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary
By Melissa Murray, Andrew Weissmann (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#12 Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
By Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 Field Notes for the Wilderness: A Guided Journal: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By Sarah Bessey (Convergent Books)
Price: $15 / Get the Book
#14 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
By Rashid Khalidi (Picador)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#15 Gender Queer: A Memoir
By Maia Kobabe (Oni Press)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 Guards! Guards!
By Terry Pratchett (Harper)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Mary Shelley, et al. (Signet)
Price: $7.95 / Get the Book
#5 A Canticle for Leibowitz
By Walter Miller (Spectra)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Hunting Party
By Lucy Foley (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Crayons
By Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever
By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#4 Jamberry
By Bruce Degen (HarperFestival)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 Bluey: Easter
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#6 Buffalo Fluffalo
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Bluey: Butterflies
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#8 Moo, Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 Corduroy
By Don Freeman (Viking Children's Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Ferris
By Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Puppets of Spelhorst (The Norendy Tales)
By Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#4 Coyote Lost and Found
By Dan Gemeinhart (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Prisoner's Throne
By Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#6 Uprising
By Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star
By Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Scholastic Year in Sports 2024
By James Buckley, Jr. (Scholastic)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 Sisters: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#2 Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers (Cat Kid Comic Club, #5)
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
By Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 Waverider: A Graphic Novel (Amulet, #9)
By Kazu Kibuishi (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1)
By Kazu Kibuishi (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 Hilo Book 10: Rise of the Cat
By Judd Winick (Random House Graphic)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 Claudia and the Bad Joke: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #15)
By Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 Waverider: (Amulet, #9)
By Kazu Kibuishi (Graphix)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
#9 See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat
By David LaRochelle, Mike Wohnoutka (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog
By David LaRochelle, Mike Wohnoutka (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book