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: 07/13/2025
Week Ending 07/13/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#2 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#3 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#4 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
By V. E. Schwab (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy
By Brigitte Knightley (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#6 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Emperor of Gladness
By Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#8 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#10 The River Is Waiting
By Wally Lamb (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#11 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#12 Don't Let Him In
By Lisa Jewell (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#13 Broken Country
By Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#14 These Summer Storms
By Sarah MacLean (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#15 The View From Lake Como
By Adriana Trigiani (Dutton)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#2 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

#3 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#4 Mark Twain
By Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
Price: $45 / Get the Book

#5 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#7 On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
By Christine Brennan (Scribner)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#8 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#10 Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
By Dave Barry (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#11 Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
By Nate Bargatze (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
By Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle (The Dial Press)
Price: $34 / Get the Book

#13 Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
By Sam Kean (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book

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

#15 Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
By Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $13 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#2 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 All the Colors of the Dark
By Chris Whitaker (Crown)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#4 One Golden Summer
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#5 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#6 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#7 Do Not Disturb
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#8 Problematic Summer Romance
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#9 The Briar Club
By Kate Quinn (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Tenant
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#11 Funny Story
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#12 Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#13 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#14 Just for the Summer
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Covenant of Water
By Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#2 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#3 The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By Joe Posnanski (Dutton)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#5 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

#7 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#8 Jrnl Persian Grove
By unknown (Peter Pauper Press)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green (Dutton)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#11 On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.) (Ten Speed Graphic)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#12 Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection
By Joshua Barkman (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#13 Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
By Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#14 Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms
By Teresa Marrone, Kathy Yerich (Adventure Publications)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#15 The Myth of Sisyphus
By Albert Camus (Vintage)
Price: $16 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#2 Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Shining
By Stephen King (Vintage)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Long Walk
By Stephen King (Pocket)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 The Wild Robot on the Island
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

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

#3 Millie Fleur Saves the Night
By Christy Mandin (Orchard Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#4 Axolotl and Axolittle
By Jess Hitchman, Sarah Rebar (Illus.) (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#5 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#7 I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
By Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#9 Little Blue Truck Feeling Happy
By Alice Schertle (Clarion Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#10 I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
By Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#2 Miss Camper: A Graphic Novel
By Kat Fajardo (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#3 Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#4 Into the Bewilderness: A Graphic Novel
By Gus Gordon (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#5 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 Catty Corner Lands on Her Feet
By Julie Murphy, Eve Farb (Illus.) (Union Square Kids)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#7 Snoop
By Gordon Korman (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Kill Creatures
By Rory Power (Delacorte Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

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

#3 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / 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 Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
By Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 Mac Undercover (Mac B., Kid Spy, #1)
By Mac Barnett, Mike Lowery (Illus.) (Orchard Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#10 Sunny Figures It Out: A Graphic Novel (Sunny #6)
By Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book