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: 10/6/2024
Week Ending 10/6/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 Intermezzo
By Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#2 The Mighty Red
By Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#3 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Somewhere Beyond the Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Spirit Crossing
By William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#8 We Solve Murders
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 Playground
By Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#10 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Here One Moment
By Liane Moriarty (Crown)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#13 Creation Lake
By Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#14 All the Colors of the Dark
By Chris Whitaker (Crown)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 By Any Other Name
By Jodi Picoult (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By Ina Garten (Crown)
Price: $34 / Get the Book
#2 The Message
By Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
Price: $30 / 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 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#6 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
#7 The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
By Wright Thompson (Penguin Press)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#8 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
#9 Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves
By Stephen Colbert, Evie McGee Colbert (Celadon Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#10 100 Afternoon Sweets: With Snacking Cakes, Brownies, Blondies, and More
By Sarah Kieffer (Chronicle Books)
Price: $27.5 / Get the Book
#11 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#12 Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
By Joe Posnanski (Dutton)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
By Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#15 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#2 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#3 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Boyfriend
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 The River We Remember
By William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.) (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#7 The House in the Cerulean Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 The Crescent Moon Tearoom
By Stacy Sivinski (Atria Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Starter Villain
By John Scalzi (Tor )
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Pairing
By Casey McQuiston (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 There There
By Tommy Orange (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#13 Still Waters
By Matt Goldman (Forge Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 Throne of Glass
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
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: $20 / Get the Book
#2 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Hillbilly Elegy
By J.D. Vance (Harper)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 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
#7 The Truths We Hold
By Kamala Harris (Penguin)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By Naomi Klein (Picador)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By Douglas Brunt (Atria Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 A Book of Days
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#13 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
By Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial)
Price: $25.99 / Get the Book
#14 Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
By Tracy Kidder (Random House)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#15 The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
By (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#3 Words of Radiance
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#4 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Gatekeeper
By James Byrne (Minotaur)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Shining
By Stephen King (Vintage)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 Mr. Cavendish, I Presume
By Julia Quinn (Avon )
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 Rich Dad Poor Dad
By Robert T. Kiyosaki (Plata Publishing)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Carrie
By Stephen King (Vintage)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Stand
By Stephen King (Anchor)
Price: $10.99 / 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 Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
By Christy Mandin (Orchard Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Little Blue Truck's Halloween
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#5 Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
By Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $18.99 / 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 The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Creepy-Crawly Halloween
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 Mother Bruce
By Ryan T. Higgins (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $9.99 / 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 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
#3 Nothing Like the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Hotel Balzaar
By Kate DiCamillo, Júlia Sardà (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 Heir
By Sabaa Tahir (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#6 When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
By Alice Hoffman (Scholastic Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Stella & Marigold
By Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#8 Ground Zero
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
By Cassandra Calin (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Squished: A Graphic Novel
By Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess
By Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 InvestiGators: Class Action
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / 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 A Super Scary Narwhalloween (A Narwhal and Jelly Book, #8)
By Ben Clanton (Tundra Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book