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: 11/24/2024
Week Ending 11/24/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 The City and Its Uncertain Walls
By Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 The Grey Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 Intermezzo
By Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#5 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#6 Time of the Child
By Niall Williams (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 Water, Water: Poems
By Billy Collins (Random House)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#10 Now or Never
By Janet Evanovich (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#12 We Solve Murders
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Tooth and Claw
By Craig Johnson (Viking)
Price: $25 / Get the Book
#14 Before We Forget Kindness
By Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square Press)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#15 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Price: $30 / 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 Cher: The Memoir, Part One
By Cher (Dey Street Books)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
#3 The Message
By Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy
By Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book
#5 Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
By Katherine Rundell (Doubleday)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#6 War
By Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By Ina Garten (Crown)
Price: $34 / Get the Book
#8 Patriot: A Memoir
By Alexei Navalny (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 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
#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 Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
By John Grisham, Jim McCloskey (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves
By Stephen Colbert, Evie McGee Colbert (Celadon Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#13 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
By Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#15 What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
By Sy Montgomery (Atria Books)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#2 The Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#3 Orbital
By Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#4 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#5 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 The Nightingale
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Waters
By Bonnie Jo Campbell (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Absolution
By Alice McDermott (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#10 And There He Kept Her
By Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#11 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By Benjamin Stevenson (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Handmaid's Tale
By Margaret Atwood (Anchor)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#13 The Vegetarian
By Han Kang (Hogarth)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#14 Hello Beautiful
By Ann Napolitano (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#15 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#4 The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
By (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#5 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 Hillbilly Elegy
By J. D. Vance (Harper)
Price: $18.99 / 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 Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: An Architect's Sketchbook
By Jim Lammers (Oro Editions)
Price: $24.95 / Get the Book
#9 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
#10 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
#11 The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By Ned Blackhawk (Yale University Press)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#12 Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love
By Scott Dominic Carpenter (Travelers' Tales)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#13 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 The Best American Essays 2024
By Wesley Morris, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#15 Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 Rhythm of War
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 A New Leash on Love
By Debbie Burns (Sourcebooks Casablanca)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#9 Good Omens
By Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Santa's First Christmas
By Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.) (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Knight Owl and Early Bird
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Knight Owl
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#4 How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Christmas at Hogwarts
By J. K. Rowling, Ziyi Gao (Illus.) (Scholastic)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Crayons Give Thanks
By Drew Daywalt (Illus.), Oliver Jeffers (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Where's Bluey? At Christmas
By Penguin Young Readers Licenses (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 So Cold!
By John Coy, Chris Park (Illus.) (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Bletchley Riddle
By Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Orris and Timble: The Beginning
By Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Christmas Pig
By J.K. Rowling, Jim Field (Illus.) (Scholastic Inc.)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Hotel Balzaar
By Kate DiCamillo, Júlia Sardà (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Sherlock Society
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Stella & Marigold
By Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Grumpus: And His Dastardly, Dreadful Christmas Plan
By Alex T. Smith (Macmillan Children's Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Puppets of Spelhorst
By Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel
By Christopher Lincoln (Dial Books)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
By Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 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 The Bad Guys in One Last Thing (The Bad Guys, #20)
By Aaron Blabey (Scholastic Paperbacks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#7 InvestiGators: Class Action
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#9 Greenglass House
By Kate Milford, Jaime Zollars (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book