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: 06/22/2025
Week Ending 06/22/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#8 The Poppy Fields (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Nikki Erlick (William Morrow)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

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

#10 King of Ashes
By S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#13 The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
By Kristin Harmel (Gallery Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#14 Never Flinch
By Stephen King (Scribner)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#15 So Far Gone
By Jess Walter (Harper)
Price: $30 / 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 Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

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

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

#5 Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
By Steve Martin (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#6 Is a River Alive?
By Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $31.99 / Get the Book

#7 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

#8 Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
By Dave Hage, Josephine Marcotty (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#9 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

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

#11 The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
By Rick Atkinson (Crown)
Price: $42 / Get the Book

#12 Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
By Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#13 Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
By E. Jean Carroll (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
By B. Dylan Hollis (DK)
Price: $37.99 / Get the Book

#15 A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir
By Jacinda Ardern (Crown)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

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

#3 Sandwich
By Catherine Newman (Harper Perennial)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#4 Sounds Like Love
By Ashley Poston (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#8 The Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book

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

#10 The Ministry of Time
By Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#12 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#13 How to Solve Your Own Murder
By Kristen Perrin (Dutton)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#14 Before Dorothy
By Hazel Gaynor (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#15 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / 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 Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

#4 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#5 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

#6 The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By Hampton Sides (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#7 Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More
By Mike Bezemek (Sourcebooks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 Birds of Kansas Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book

#10 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#11 White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#12 Sociopath: A Memoir
By Patric Gagne, Ph.D. (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
By David A. Graham (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $16 / Get the Book

#14 Who's Afraid of Gender?
By Judith Butler (Picador)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#15 Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By Rachel Maddow (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

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

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

#7 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#10 Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#2 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Dragon's First Taco
By Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#5 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#6 Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
By Christy Mandin (Orchard Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 Caitlin Clark: A Little Golden Book Biography
By Marisa DiNovis, Joanie Stone (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#8 Big Red Barn
By Margaret Wise Brown, Felicia Bond (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

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

#2 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#5 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Storytide)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#7 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 Wings of Starlight
By Allison Saft (Random House/Disney)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#9 Orris and Timble: Lost and Found
By Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#10 Resist: A Story of D-Day
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $9.99 / 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 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #11)
By Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#7 City Spies
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 Keeper of the Lost Cities
By Shannon Messenger (Aladdin)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book