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 5/28/23
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 Happy Place
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#2 The Covenant of Water
By Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

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

#4 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book

#5 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By J.Ryan Stradal (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#7 Romantic Comedy
By Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#8 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#9 The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
By Tom Hanks, R. Sikoryak (Illus.) (Knopf)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book

#10 The Guest
By Emma Cline (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#11 Yellowface
By R. F. Kuang (Morrow)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#13 The Late Americans: A Novel
By Brandon Taylor (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#14 Hello Beautiful
By Ann Napolitano (The Dial Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#15 Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
By Crystal Smith Paul (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#2 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#3 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#4 A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By Timothy Egan (Viking)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#5 You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory
By Ruta Sepetys (Viking Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#6 King: A Life
By Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#7 You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
By Maggie Smith (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#8 Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
By Sarah Hart (Flatiron Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#9 How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves (Natural Navigation)
By Tristan Gooley (The Experiment)
Price: $24.95 / Get the Book

#10 Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By Jamie Loftus (Forge Books)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#11 Tasting History: Explore the Past through 4,000 Years of Recipes
By Max Miller, Ann Volkwein (S&S/Simon Element)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
By Mary Louise Kelly (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#13 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

#14 The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
By Stephen Vladeck (Basic Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#15 Be the Bus: The Lost & Profound Wisdom of the Pigeon
By Mo Willems (Union Square & Co.)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 Trust
By Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#2 This Is How You Lose the Time War
By Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone (Gallery/Saga Press)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 When Women Were Dragons
By Kelly Barnhill (Anchor)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

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

#6 The Maid
By Nita Prose (Ballantine)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#8 The Last Thing He Told Me
By Laura Dave (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#9 Meet Me at the Lake
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#10 Daisy Jones & The Six
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#11 Yours Truly
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#12 Nora Goes Off Script
By Annabel Monaghan (Putnam)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

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

#14 The Four Winds
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#15 Tender Is the Flesh
By Agustina Bazterrica (Scribner)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
By Michelle Zauner (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

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

#3 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#4 Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By Dr. Anna Lembke (Dutton)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#5 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

#6 The Nineties: A Book
By Chuck Klosterman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green (Dutton)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#9 Quietly Hostile: Essays
By Samantha Irby (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#10 Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
By Rinker Buck (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#11 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#12 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#13 There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World
By Carlo Rovelli (Riverhead Books)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#14 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
By Art Spiegelman (Pantheon)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#15 How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
By Danny Caine (Microcosm Publishing)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#2 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#5 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#6 Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley (Signet)
Price: $7.95 / Get the Book

#7 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Ballantine)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 Rhythm of War
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#9 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#10 Empire of Silence
By Christopher Ruocchio (DAW)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

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

#2 When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left
By Marc Colagiovanni, Peter H. Reynolds (Illus.) (Orchard Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#3 Simon and the Better Bone
By Corey R. Tabor (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 What Do You Say, Little Blue Truck?
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#5 Love in the Library
By Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Yas Imamura (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Digger and the Butterfly
By Joseph Kuefler (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#7 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#8 Moo, Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 Bluey: The Beach
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $4.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star
By Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 Warrior Girl Unearthed
By Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 I Must Betray You
By Ruta Sepetys (Philomel Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Fountains of Silence
By Ruta Sepetys (Penguin)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#5 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
By Judy Blume (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#6 The One and Only Ruby
By Katherine Applegate (Harper)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#7 Out of the Easy
By Ruta Sepetys (Philomel Books)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#8 School Trip: A Graphic Novel
By Jerry Craft (Quill Tree Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#9 Salt to the Sea
By Ruta Sepetys (Penguin)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 Between Shades of Gray: The Graphic Novel
By Ruta Sepetys, Dave Kopka (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#2 Surprisingly Sarah (Emmie & Friends)
By Terri Libenson (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde
By Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#4 Dog Man: Fetch-22
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#5 Moon Rising: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #6)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
By Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 Karen's Witch (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix, #1)
By Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 Secrets and Sidekicks (Katie the Catsitter, #3)
By Colleen AF Venable, Stephanie Yue (Illus.) (Random House Graphic)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
By Chris Colfer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#10 Let's Go for a Drive! (Elephant & Piggie)
By Mo Willems (Disney/Hyperion)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book