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: 12/21/2025








Week Ending 12/21/25
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#3 Dog Show: Poems
By Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.) (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
By Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#5 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#9 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#14 Katabasis
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 The Antidote
By Karen Russell (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 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
#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 The Look
By Michelle Obama (Crown)
Price: $50 / Get the Book
#5 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#7 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#8 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
#9 The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
By Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins (Hay House LLC)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#10 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#11 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: $29.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
By Sean Sherman, Kate Nelson, Kristin Donnelly (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#14 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#15 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Secret Christmas Library
By Jenny Colgan (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#10 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#11 Isola
By Allegra Goodman (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#12 When the Cranes Fly South
By Lisa Ridzén (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#14 All the Colors of the Dark
By Chris Whitaker (Crown)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / 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 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
#3 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#4 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#5 Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More
By Mike Bezemek (Sourcebooks)
Price: $18.99 / 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 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#10 A Year of Living Curiously: 365 Things Really Worth Knowing
By Elizabeth Foley, Beth Coates (Faber & Faber)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#11 Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#12 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 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
#14 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#15 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#5 Elantris
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#6 And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#8 The Stand
By Stephen King (Vintage)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#9 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 The Christmas Sweater
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 If We Were Dogs
By Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 A Snow Day for Amos McGee
By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $19.99 / 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 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Hansel and Gretel
By Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#7 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#9 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Polar Express
By Chris Van Allsburg (HMH Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#4 A Wrinkle in Time
By Madeleine L'Engle (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Sherlock Society
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Creaky Acres: A Graphic Novel
By Calista Brill, Nilah Magruder (Illus.) (Kokila)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#3 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Sunrise on the Reaping: Collector's Gift Edition (The Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dog Man
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book