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: 10/05/2025
Week Ending 10/05/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 The Impossible Fortune
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#2 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book

#3 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

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

#5 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
By Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#6 Katabasis
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

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

#8 What Stalks the Deep
By T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 Apostle's Cove
By William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#10 Circle of Days
By Ken Follett (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $40 / Get the Book

#11 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#12 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#14 The Academy
By Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#15 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 107 Days
By Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#2 History Matters
By David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#3 Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
By Brené Brown (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#4 Awake: A Memoir
By Jen Hatmaker (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#5 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

#6 We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
By Jill Lepore (Liveright)
Price: $39.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book

#9 Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
Price: $29 / 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 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#12 Mother Mary Comes to Me
By Arundhati Roy (Scribner)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#14 Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, a Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism
By Leland Vittert (Harper Horizon)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#15 Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
By Mary Roach (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#4 Soul Searching
By Lyla Sage (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Gingerbread Bakery
By Laurie Gilmore (HarperCollins)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#6 When the Cranes Fly South
By Lisa Ridzén (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

#8 The Nightingale
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

#11 Iron Lake
By William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 The City and Its Uncertain Walls
By Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#13 Playground
By Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#14 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#15 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

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

#2 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / 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 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book

#5 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

#6 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
By Anne Applebaum (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (Harper Perennial Olive Editions)
By Roxane Gay (Harper Perennial)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#9 A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
By Jonn Elledge (The Experiment)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book

#10 The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
By Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
Price: $24 / Get the Book

#11 I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
By Monica Guzman (BenBella Books)
Price: $21.95 / Get the Book

#12 Gender Queer: A Memoir
By Maia Kobabe (Oni Press)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book

#13 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By Merlin Sheldrake (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#14 Surviving the 21st Century
By Noam Chomsky, José Mujica, Saúl Alvídrez (Verso)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book

#15 America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
By Randall Balmer (Steerforth)
Price: $13.95 / 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 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
By Frederick Douglass (Dell)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 Franny and Zooey
By J.D. Salinger (Little Brown)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 The Devil's Bed
By William Kent Krueger (Pocket Star)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Shining
By Stephen King (Vintage)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

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

#2 Room on the Broom
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat
By Julien Chung (Beach Lane Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 Hansel and Gretel
By Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#5 Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
By Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#6 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.) (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 If We Were Dogs
By Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Halloween
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#10 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
By Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)
Price: $9.99 / 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 Fake Skating
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Secrets of the Purple Pearl (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

#5 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#6 Scarlet Morning
By ND Stevenson (Quill Tree Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
By Kate McKinnon (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#9 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Last Resort
By Erin Entrada Kelly (Scholastic Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #3
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#2 Lost Evangeline (The Norendy Tales)
By Kate DiCamillo, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#3 Twilight: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Twilight Saga)
By Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $40 / Get the Book

#4 InvestiGators: Case Files
By John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#5 Fearful: A Powerless Story (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 Dory Fantasmagory: Tiny Tough
By Abby Hanlon, Abby Hanlon (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#8 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#9 Hooky Volume 1: A Graphic Novel
By Míriam Bonastre Tur (Clarion Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#10 Dory Fantasmagory
By Abby Hanlon, Abby Hanlon (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book