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: 10/13/2024
Week Ending 10/13/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Mighty Red
By Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#2 Intermezzo
By Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#3 Playground
By Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#6 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 We Solve Murders
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 Somewhere Beyond the Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#10 Spirit Crossing
By William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#12 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Life Impossible
By Matt Haig (Viking)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 The Night We Lost Him
By Laura Dave (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 The Message
By Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By Ina Garten (Crown)
Price: $34 / Get the Book
#3 Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
By Sharon McMahon (Thesis)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#5 Into the Uncut Grass
By Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn (Illus.) (One World)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#6 The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
By Wright Thompson (Penguin Press)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By Yuval Noah Harari (Random House)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#8 From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
By Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#9 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#10 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
#11 Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras
By Sarah Chapelle (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#12 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
By Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#14 Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#15 The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By Nancy Pelosi (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#2 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#3 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#4 The Boyfriend
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By Benjamin Stevenson (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Starling House
By Alix E. Harrow (Tor)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 The River We Remember
By William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 Horse
By Geraldine Brooks (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#11 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#12 Iron Lake
By William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Pumpkin Spice Café
By Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 Circe
By Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#15 The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Oscar Wilde (Penguin )
Price: $9 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 The Truths We Hold
By Kamala Harris (Penguin)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#4 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#6 A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By Timothy Egan (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
By Eckart Frahm (Basic Books)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By David Von Drehle (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 A Termination
By Honor Moore (Public Space Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Creator), The New York Times Magazine (One World)
Price: $25 / Get the Book
#11 Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By Ilyon Woo (37 Ink)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#12 I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
By Mónica Guzmán (BenBella Books)
Price: $21.95 / Get the Book
#13 Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
By John McPhee (Picador)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 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
#15 Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
By Carl Sferrazza Anthony (Gallery Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Laurel Leaf)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka (Bantam Classics)
Price: $6.95 / Get the Book
#3 Interview with the Vampire
By Anne Rice (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen (Bantam Classics)
Price: $5.95 / Get the Book
#6 The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Signet)
Price: $8.95 / Get the Book
#7 The Gatekeeper
By James Byrne (Minotaur)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Storm of Swords
By George R. R. Martin (Bantam)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Good Omens
By Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Rhythm of War
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Room on the Broom Special Edition
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#2 Room on the Broom
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Bakery Dragon
By Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
By Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Little Blue Truck's Halloween
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#6 How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat?
By Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illus.) (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 5 More Sleeps 'til Halloween
By Jimmy Fallon, Rich Deas (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Bletchley Riddle
By Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / 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 Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (A Graphic Novel)
By John Hendrix (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Hotel Balzaar
By Kate DiCamillo, Júlia Sardà (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
By Kate McKinnon (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#6 Stella & Marigold
By Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#7 Night of the Witch
By Sara Raasch, Beth Revis (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Rover's Story
By Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Nothing Like the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 Heir
By Sabaa Tahir (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess
By Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 InvestiGators: Class Action
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#4 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#6 Spy School Goes Wild
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Kristy and the Walking Disaster: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #16)
By Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
By Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Katie the Catsitter 4: The Purrfect Plan: (A Graphic Novel)
By Colleen AF Venable, Stephanie Yue (Illus.) (Random House Graphic)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#10 Pizza and Taco: Best Christmas Ever!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book