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: 11/9/2025








Week Ending 11/9/25
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Queen Esther
By John Irving (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Wreck
By Catherine Newman (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#6 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#7 Twice
By Mitch Albom (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#8 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#10 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 The Everlasting
By Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#14 Katabasis
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / 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 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#4 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
#5 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#6 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 Bread of Angels: A Memoir
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
By Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 Notes on Being a Man
By Scott Galloway (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#10 Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
By Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#11 Guinness World Records 2026
By Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
Price: $29.95 / Get the Book
#12 That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
By Elyse Myers (William Morrow)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
By Jill Lepore (Liveright)
Price: $39.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#15 Finding My Way: A Memoir
By Malala Yousafzai (Atria Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#2 How About Now: Poems
By Kate Baer (Harper Perennial)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#4 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 The Christmas Tree Farm
By Laurie Gilmore (HarperCollins)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Good Spirits
By B. K. Borison (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 And There He Kept Her
By Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Gingerbread Bakery
By Laurie Gilmore (HarperCollins)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#13 Monk and Robot
By Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Best American Short Stories 2025
By Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#15 The Perfect Hosts
By Heather Gudenkauf (Park Row)
Price: $18.99 / 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: $14 / Get the Book
#3 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
#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 Book of Kin: On Absence, Love, and Being There
By Jennifer Eli Bowen (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#7 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#8 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
#9 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
#11 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#12 The Best American Essays 2025
By Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#13 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By Boyce Upholt (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#15 A Philosophy of Walking
By Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#3 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#4 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#6 Storm Front
By Jim Butcher (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Long Walk
By Stephen King (Pocket)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#9 Judas Unchained
By Peter F. Hamilton (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Long Mars
By Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (Harper)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 The Humble Pie
By Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $19.99 / 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 Shibu's Tail
By Tess Thomas, Kamwei Fong (Illus.) (Levine Querido)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Mitten
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 Jan Brett's The Nutcracker
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 A Snow Day for Amos McGee
By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 Mr. Willowby's Head Over Heels Christmas
By Robert Barry (Doubleday Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Moo, Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#10 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#3 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 Sweet & Salty!: King Arthur Baking Company's Cookbook for Young Bakers
By King Arthur Baking Company (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#6 A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance
By Sophie Jomain (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#7 If Only I Had Told Her (Collector's Edition)
By Laura Nowlin (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $25.99 / 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 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 Alone
By Megan E. Freeman (Aladdin)
Price: $9.99 / 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 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Same Backward as Forward (Deluxe Limited Edition) (The Inheritance Games)
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#4 The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#8 I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #12)
By Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 InvestiGators: Case Files
By John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
By Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book