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: 1/18/2026








Week Ending 1/18/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#3 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#4 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#5 The First Time I Saw Him
By Laura Dave (Scribner)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#6 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
By Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#8 Carl's Doomsday Scenario
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Broken Country
By Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#12 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 Anatomy of an Alibi
By Ashley Elston (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 Queen Esther
By John Irving (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
By John Fugelsang (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
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 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#6 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#7 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel MD (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#10 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
#11 Bread of Angels: A Memoir
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
By Belle Burden (The Dial Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
By Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#14 The Look
By Michelle Obama (Crown)
Price: $50 / Get the Book
#15 A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
By Elizabeth McCracken (Ecco)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Heated Rivalry
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 Game Changer
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#5 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Long Game
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#10 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#13 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#15 The Briar Club
By Kate Quinn (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / 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 Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By Amanda Montell (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#4 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By Jason Stanley (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
By Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
Price: $24 / Get the Book
#7 Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#8 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#10 Eye For Joy: Noticing the Good World Everywhere
By Peg Guilfoyle (Sea Crow Press)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#11 For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional
By Hanna Reichel (Eerdmans )
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
By Francis Weller (North Atlantic Books)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#13 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#14 Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World
By Art Cullen (Ice Cube Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#15 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#4 Hamlet
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#6 The Silmarillion
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Outlander
By Diana Gabaldon (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (Signet )
Price: $7.95 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Moo, Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#2 Your Truck
By Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Going to Bed Book
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#4 A Snow Day for Amos McGee
By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 Smooches!
By Sandra Boynton (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#6 If We Were Dogs
By Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Good Dog, Carl
By Alexandra Day, Alexandra Day (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Hansel and Gretel
By Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#10 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
By Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#2 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
By Stephen Chbosky (Simon Pulse)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#4 Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
By A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.) (Aladdin)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 If He Had Been with Me
By Laura Nowlin (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
By Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.) (Rocky Pond Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Rise of Neptune (Dragonships #2)
By Scott Reintgen (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Corruption of Hollis Brown
By K. Ancrum (HarperCollins)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#2 Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#4 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 Vortex of the Chaos Dragon (Dragon Masters, #30)
By Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.) (Scholastic)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#6 Sweet Valley Twins: Three's a Crowd: (A Graphic Novel) (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels #7)
By Francine Pascal, Claudia Aguirre (Illus.) (Random House Graphic)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#8 Pizza and Taco: Go Viral!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 Sunrise on the Reaping: Collector's Gift Edition (The Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book