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: 5/31/2026








Week Ending 5/31/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
By Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 The Midnight Train
By Matt Haig (Viking)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#5 The Things We Never Say
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#6 Carl's Doomsday Scenario
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Our Perfect Storm
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It
By Brooke Averick (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 A Parade of Horribles
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Sarah A. Parker (Avon)
Price: $34 / Get the Book
#11 The Tapestry of Fate
By Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#12 John of John
By Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#13 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 Ironwood
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 A Fortune of Sand
By Ruta Sepetys (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 The Land and Its People: Essays
By David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
By Neil deGrasse Tyson (Simon Six)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#3 London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#4 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
By Belle Burden (The Dial Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#6 Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
By Mac Barnett (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#8 All We Say: The Battle for American Identity
By Ben Rhodes (Random House)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America
By Andrew Weissmann (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#10 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#11 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#12 America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries
By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (Crown)
Price: $31 / Get the Book
#13 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
By Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower (Ballantine Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#15 A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
By Michael Pollan (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / 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 Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 The Divorce
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dolly All the Time
By Annabel Monaghan (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 Bromantasy
By Máire Roche (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 The Knight and the Moth (Indie Exclusive Edition)
By Rachel Gillig (Orbit)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 Angel Down
By Daniel Kraus (Atria Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 James
By Percival Everett (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Road to Tender Hearts
By Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 The Book Club for Troublesome Women
By Marie Bostwick (Harper Muse)
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: $22 / Get the Book
#2 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
By Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book
#4 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#5 Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
By Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
By Sam Kean (Back Bay Books)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#7 Wildflowers of Minnesota Field Guide (Wildflower Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book
#8 The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By Evan Friss (Penguin Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 Raising Hare: A Memoir
By Chloe Dalton (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#10 Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
By Becky Aikman (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#11 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#12 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By Anthony Bourdain (Ecco)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#14 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By Dipo Faloyin (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#3 Rhythm of War
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#6 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#8 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Oh, the Places You'll Go!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 We Are Mighty: 12 Ordinary Americans Who Did the Next Needed Thing
By Sharon McMahon, Susanna Chapman (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#4 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 It's My Bird-Day!
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / 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 Dad
By Christian Robinson (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
By Cassandra Calin (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 Wombat Waiting
By Katherine Applegate (Storytide)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 A Wolf Called Fire
By Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Summer of Second Chances (Deluxe Edition)
By K. L. Walther (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 Odder: The Novel
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
By Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Storytide)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships #1)
By Scott Reintgen (Aladdin)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Sherlock Society
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19)
By Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire, Book 16)
By Tui T. Sutherland (Scholastic Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#6 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#7 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
By Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#8 City Spies
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book