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: 08/03/2025
Week Ending 08/03/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

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

#4 Not Quite Dead Yet
By Holly Jackson (Bantam)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#5 The Enchanted Greenhouse
By Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#8 The Bewitching
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

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

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

#11 Culpability
By Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#13 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

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

#15 An Inside Job
By Daniel Silva (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

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

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

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

#5 The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
By Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#6 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

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

#8 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

#9 The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

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

#14 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

#15 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
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

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

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

#4 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
By Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

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

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

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

#9 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#13 Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

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

#15 All Fours
By Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 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

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

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

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

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

#6 Meditations
By Marcus Aurelius (Modern Library)
Price: $11 / Get the Book

#7 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#11 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#12 No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

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

#14 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

#15 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

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

#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 Macbeth
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#6 Murder on the Red River
By Marcie R. Rendon (Soho Crime)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#7 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
By Agatha Christie (Morrow)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 Children of Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#9 Foundation
By Isaac Asimov (Spectra)
Price: $10 / Get the Book

#10 Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Mary Shelley, et al. (Signet)
Price: $8.95 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 The Day the Crayons Made Friends
By Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

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

#3 Jamberry
By Bruce Degen (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

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

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

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

#10 Buffalo Fluffalo
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 Glorious Rivals
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book

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

#3 Unicornia: Learning to Fly
By Ana Punset, Diana Vicedo (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Sherlock Society
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
By Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.) (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Outsiders
By S. E. Hinton (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / 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 Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
By Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (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 One of Us Is Lying
By Karen M. McManus (Delacorte Press)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 The Brightest Night (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #5)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 Spy School
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book