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: 11/2/2025








Week Ending 11/2/25
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#3 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Impossible Fortune
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#6 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 Tom's Crossing
By Mark Z. Danielewski (Pantheon)
Price: $40 / Get the Book
#8 The Everlasting
By Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#10 Wreck
By Catherine Newman (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Proving Ground
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#12 Gone Before Goodbye
By Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 Twice
By Mitch Albom (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#14 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#2 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
#3 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#4 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 The Uncool: A Memoir
By Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 107 Days
By Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America
By Jonathan Karl (Dutton)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#9 That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
By Elyse Myers (William Morrow)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 Finding My Way: A Memoir
By Malala Yousafzai (Atria Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will
By John Kennedy (Broadside Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#12 Dead and Alive: Essays
By Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#14 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
#15 Expensive Basketball
By Shea Serrano (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Mate
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#7 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 Playground
By Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 All the Colors of the Dark
By Chris Whitaker (Crown)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#10 The Empusium
By Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition
By William Goldman (Harper Perennial)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#12 Annihilation
By Jeff VanderMeer (Picador)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#14 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 Good Spirits
By B. K. Borison (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / 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 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / 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 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By David Brooks (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#8 The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
By Morgan Housel (Harriman House)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Healing After Loss
By Martha W. Hickman (Morrow)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book
#11 Trees of Missouri Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#12 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#13 America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
By Randall Balmer (Steerforth)
Price: $13.95 / Get the Book
#14 A Philosophy of Walking
By Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#15 A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By David Gibbins (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
By Merriam-Webster (Ed.) (Merriam-Webster)
Price: $9.5 / Get the Book
#4 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Storm Front
By Jim Butcher (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#8 A Beautiful Blue Death
By Charles Finch (Minotaur Books)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#9 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Tell-Tale Heart
By Edgar Allan Poe (Bantam Classics)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Room on the Broom
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
By Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Moo, Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#4 Buffalo Fluffalo
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 Aggie and the Ghost
By Matthew Forsythe (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Mitten
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#2 Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / 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 Fake Skating
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#5 Nothing Like the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#6 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
#7 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
#8 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Sherlock Society
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Rise of Neptune (Dragonships #2)
By Scott Reintgen (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
By Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#3 I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived, #25)
By Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#4 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#5 Spy School Blackout
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 InvestiGators: Case Files
By John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 Who Would Win?: The Ultimate Rumble Collection
By Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.) (Scholastic)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#8 Lost Evangeline (The Norendy Tales)
By Kate DiCamillo, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #18) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
By Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book