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: 1/25/2026








Week Ending 1/25/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 Half His Age
By Jennette McCurdy (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#4 Twelve Months
By Jim Butcher (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#6 The First Time I Saw Him
By Laura Dave (Scribner)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#7 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 The Things We Leave Unfinished (SIGNED)
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Amara)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
By Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#12 My Husband's Wife
By Alice Feeney (Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#13 Nine Goblins
By T. Kingfisher (Tordotcom)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
#14 Lost Lambs
By Madeline Cash (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 Anatomy of an Alibi
By Ashley Elston (Pamela Dorman Books)
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 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#3 Football
By Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 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
#7 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#8 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 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
#10 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 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
#12 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#13 Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like To Be Free
By Ania M. Jastreboff, M.D., Ph.D., Oprah Winfrey (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#15 Winter: The Story of a Season
By Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Heated Rivalry
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#4 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#5 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Long Game
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#11 Tough Guy
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Book Club for Troublesome Women
By Marie Bostwick (Harper Muse)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Odyssey
By Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book
#14 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 Game Changer
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
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 How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By Jason Stanley (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#3 The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
By Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
Price: $24 / Get the Book
#4 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
#5 The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
By Priya Parker (Riverhead Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#9 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / 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 On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.) (Ten Speed Graphic)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
By Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 The River of Doubt
By Candice Millard (Broadway)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 The Undocumented Americans
By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#15 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Hamlet
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#5 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Macbeth
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#7 Hamlet
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#9 Siddhartha
By Hermann Hesse (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 Your Truck
By Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 Chicka Chicka I Love You
By Bill Martin Jr, John Archambault, Julien Chung (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 Smooches!
By Sandra Boynton (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#9 Valentines Are the Worst!
By Alex Willan (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
By Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
By Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.) (Rocky Pond Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Rise of Neptune (Dragonships #2)
By Scott Reintgen (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Sisters in the Wind
By Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 Fake Skating
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#8 Cabin Head and Tree Head
By Scott Campbell (Tundra Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Where Wolves Don't Die
By Anton Treuer (Levine Querido)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
By A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.) (Aladdin)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 A Waffle Lot of Love! (A Narwhal and Jelly Book, #10)
By Ben Clanton (Tundra Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#6 Rock Paper Incisors: A Skunk and Badger Story
By Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
By Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#10 Pizza and Taco: Go Viral!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book