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 6/26/22
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

#2 Lapvona
By Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

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

#4 The Hotel Nantucket
By Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#5 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

#6 This Time Tomorrow
By Emma Straub (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#7 Sea of Tranquility
By Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
Price: $25 / Get the Book

#8 The House Across the Lake
By Riley Sager (Dutton)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#9 When Women Were Dragons
By Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#10 The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig (Viking)
Price: $26 / Get the Book

#11 Sparring Partners
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $28.95 / Get the Book

#12 The Atlas Six
By Olivie Blake (Tor)
Price: $25.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Lincoln Highway
By Amor Towles (Viking)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 Jackie & Me
By Louis Bayard (Algonquin Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#15 Hide
By Kiersten White (Del Rey)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 Happy-Go-Lucky
By David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#2 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By Ed Yong (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#3 River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By Candice Millard (Doubleday)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book

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

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

#6 Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
By Brené Brown (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#7 How to Raise an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi (One World)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#8 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By Nick Offerman (Dutton)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#9 Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By Susan Cain (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#10 The Baseball 100
By Joe Posnanski (Avid Reader Press/S&S)
Price: $40 / Get the Book

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

#12 The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By Steve Brusatte (Mariner Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#13 Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals
By Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#14 These Precious Days: Essays
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By David Graeber, David Wengrow (FSG)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 Book Lovers
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#2 Where the Crawdads Sing
By Delia Owens (Putnam)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

#4 Verity
By Colleen Hoover (Grand Central)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 Malibu Rising
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 Ugly Love
By Colleen Hoover (Atria)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#8 November 9: A Novel
By Colleen Hoover (Atria Books)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#9 People We Meet on Vacation
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $16 / Get the Book

#10 All the Light We Cannot See
By Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#11 The Song of Achilles
By Madeline Miller (Ecco)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#12 Klara and the Sun
By Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#13 The Dictionary of Lost Words
By Pip Williams (Ballantine)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#14 Every Summer After
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $16 / Get the Book

#15 The House in the Cerulean Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / 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 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

#3 Educated: A Memoir
By Tara Westover (Random House)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By Suzanne Simard (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#6 The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#8 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By Merlin Sheldrake (Random House)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#9 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#10 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
By Art Spiegelman (Pantheon)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#11 The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By Elizabeth Letts (Ballantine)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#12 The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By Bill Bryson (Anchor)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#13 The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
By Kate Moore (Sourcebooks)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#14 Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By Natalie Haynes (Harper Perennial)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#15 Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
By Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Price: $18 / 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 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#4 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Laurel Leaf)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#5 Gone to Dust
By Matt Goldman (Forge Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
By (Merriam-Webster)
Price: $8.5 / Get the Book

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

#9 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#10 No Exit
By Taylor Adams (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Woodland Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Workman)
Price: $7.95 / Get the Book

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

#3 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book

#4 Dog's First Baby
By Natalie Nelson (Quirk Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 Dragons Love Tacos
By Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.) (Dial)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 Baby Puppy: Finger Puppet Book
By Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#8 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#9 Moo, Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#10 Construction Site: Road Crew, Coming Through!
By Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 I Kissed Shara Wheeler
By Casey McQuiston (Wednesday Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 We Were Liars
By E. Lockhart (Ember)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Beatryce Prophecy
By Kate DiCamillo, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 Family of Liars
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#5 One of Us Is Lying
By Karen M. McManus (Delacorte Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#6 Firekeeper's Daughter
By Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 Cress Watercress
By Gregory Maguire, David Litchfield (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#8 Swim Team
By Johnnie Christmas (HarperAlley)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 Willodeen
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#10 Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
By (Scholastic)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Heartstopper: Volume 3: A Graphic Novel
By Alice Oseman (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#2 Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose (Cat Kid Comic Club, #3)
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#5 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#6 Katie the Catsitter
By Colleen AF Venable, Stephanie Yue (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 Rise of the Earth Dragon (Dragon Masters, #1)
By Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.) (Scholastic)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
By Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
By Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#10 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
By Holly Jackson (Ember)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book