Midwest Indie Bestsellers List

#1 A Court of Splintered Harmony: The Valkyrie Cycle, Movement I (A Court of Thorns and Roses #6)
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#2 Miss Wolcott's Ghost (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #21)
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#3 The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#4 Hollywood, Ending
By John Green (Dutton Books)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#5 A Married Little Christmas (Deluxe Edition)
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#6 Public Access Afterworld
By Jane Schoenbrun (Hogarth)
Price: $33 / Get the Book

#7 Peck & Peck
By Bonnie Garmus (Scribner)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#8 The French Illusion (The French Illusion Series)
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#9 The Pirate Queen
By Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#10 The Hollow: A Harry Bosch Novel
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#11 The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#12 Whistler
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#13 Exit Party
By Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#14 American Hagwon
By Min Jin Lee (Cardinal)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

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

#1 The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $34 / Get the Book

#2 Simply Ina: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
By Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $40 / Get the Book

#3 Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
By Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
By Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
Price: $38 / Get the Book

#5 Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up
By David Byrne (Penguin Press)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

#6 Abandoning a Cat: A Personal Story
By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Transl.) (Knopf)
Price: $26 / Get the Book

#7 Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
By Adam Grant (Viking)
Price: $33 / Get the Book

#8 London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#9 Will and Attention: A Memoir
By Meghan O'Gieblyn (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#10 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#11 We Thought They'd Never Leave: Musings on Food and Family
By Tony Shalhoub (Gallery Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict
By Priya Parker (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#13 The Land and Its People: Essays
By David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 One Helluva Ride
By Michael Douglas (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#15 Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life
By Merritt R. Turetsky (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#1 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#2 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#3 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
By Beth Brower (Penguin Books)
Price: $15 / Get the Book

#4 East of Eden
By John Steinbeck (Penguin)
Price: $25 / Get the Book

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

#6 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2
By Beth Brower (Penguin Books)
Price: $15 / Get the Book

#7 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#8 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#10 Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#11 Christmas Staycation (Deluxe Edition) (How My Neighbor Stole Christmas)
By Meghan Quinn (Bloom Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#12 Life, and Death, and Giants
By Ron Rindo (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

#14 Stitched
By Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book

#15 The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Lives of Guinevere #1)
By Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book

#1 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#2 Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
By Cory Doctorow (Picador)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#3 Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
By Christine Kuehn (Celadon Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#4 Is a River Alive?
By Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#5 You Don't Need a Smartphone: A Practical Guide to Downgrading Your Phone and Upgrading Your Life
By August Lamm (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#6 Meditations: A New Translation
By Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (Trans.) (Modern Library)
Price: $11 / Get the Book

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

#8 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book

#9 Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More
By Mike Bezemek (Sourcebooks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#11 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#12 The Place of Tides
By James Rebanks (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green (Dutton)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#14 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2026
By Randall Munroe, Jaime Green (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#2 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#3 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#4 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 God Emperor of Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 Renegade Reunion
By Addison Fox (Harlequin Romantic Suspense)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 Red Dragon
By Thomas Harris (Berkley)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

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

#2 Gruffalo Granny
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 Our Little Adventure at Thanksgiving (Tabitha Paige Children's Book Series #22)
By Tabitha Paige (Paige Tate & Co)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 The Wise Pickle
By Sarah Howden, Sabina Hahn (Illus.) (Tundra Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Little Blue Truck's Halloween
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

#9 Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains with a Boy
By Mac Barnett, X. Fang (Illus.) (Tundra Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#10 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book

#1 Building 903
By Lois Lowry (Clarion Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 Trust Fall
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#3 This Is a Door
By Daniel Nayeri (Stonefruit Studio)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 You're No Better (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#5 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 Camp Half-Blood: From the World of Percy Jackson: The Wild Zone
By Rick Riordan, Annabelle Oh (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book

#7 Licorice
By Kara LaReau, Kelly Murphy (Illus.) (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Sixth Faction Deluxe Limited Edition (A New Divergent Series #1)
By Veronica Roth (HarperCollins)
Price: $25.99 / Get the Book

#9 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#10 Scholastic Book of World Records 2027
By Scholastic (Scholastic Inc.)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#1 Fight or Flight (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #21)
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#2 Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#3 Baby-sitters on Board!: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #1)
By Raina Telgemeier (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#4 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#5 Wildwood (The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I)
By Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#6 Karen's New Year: A Graphic Novel (Baby-sitters Little Sister #13) (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix)
By DK Yingst (Illus.), Ann M. Martin (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#7 I Survived the Night of the Lions, 2025 (I Survived #26)
By Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic Inc.)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#8 Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
By Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#9 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
By Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid
By Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book