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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 regional tastes and handselling expertise of bookstores and readers throughout our region. We release the list via email to 1,500 members throughout the industry every Wednesday afternoon and also post it here. We thank the American Booksellers Association for their generous work of compiling the data from indie bookstores across the country every week.
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This week's #1 titles
Week ending 5/2/2021
HARDCOVER FICTION #1 The Hill We Climb  #2 The Four Winds  #3 Sooley  #4 The Midnight Library  #5 Whereabouts  #6 Klara and the Sun  #7 Hamnet  #8 When the Stars Go Dark  #9 The Vanishing Half  #10 Early Morning Riser  #11 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue  #12 The Lost Apothecary  #13 Ocean Prey  #14 Fugitive Telemetry  #15 First Person Singular |
HARDCOVER NONFICTION #1 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse  #2 Caste  #3 Crying in H Mart  #4 What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing  #5 The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War  #6 World Travel  #7 Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age  #8 You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience  #9 On the House  #10 Broken (in the best possible way)  #11 Dusk, Night, Dawn  #12 The Code Breaker  #13 Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power  #14 Broken Horses  #15 Untamed |
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION #1 The Night Watchman  #2 The Rose Code  #3 Where the Crawdads Sing  #4 The Song of Achilles  #5 The House in the Cerulean Sea  #6 Circe  #7 Such a Fun Age  #8 Deacon King Kong  #9 The Dutch House  #10 This Tender Land  #11 The Overstory  #12 All Adults Here  #13 The Seed Keeper  #14 Dial A for Aunties  #15 Red, White & Royal Blue |
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION #1 Braiding Sweetgrass  #2 Nomadland  #3 Hidden Valley Road  #4 Entangled Life  #5 The Desire Factor  #6 The Body  #7 My Grandmother's Hands  #8 Minor Feelings  #9 The Body Keeps the Score  #10 Becoming  #11 We Do This 'til We Free Us  #12 The New Jim Crow  #13 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide  #14 Why Fish Don't Exist  #15 White Fragility |
MASS MARKET #1 1984  #2 Dune  #3 Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me  #4 The Diary of a Young Girl  #5 Bridgerton: An Offer From a Gentleman  #6 The Way of Kings  #7 Good Omens  #8 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  #9 Bridgerton: Romancing Mister Bridgerton  #10 Dune Messiah |
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED #1 We Are Water Protectors  #2 Jungle Night  #3 Where the Wild Things Are  #4 The Rock from the Sky  #5 Eyes That Kiss in the Corners  #6 Snuggle Puppy  #7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar  #8 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!  #9 Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race  #10 The Going to Bed Book |
CHILDREN'S INTEREST #1 Firekeeper's Daughter  #2 Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories  #3 They Both Die at the End  #4 Holes  #5 Cat Kid Comic Club  #6 Wow in the World: The How and Wow of the Human Body  #7 When You Trap a Tiger  #8 Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States  #9 Concrete Rose  #10 The War That Saved My Life |
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES #1 Dog Man: Mothering Heights  #2 Shadow and Bone  #3 Siege and Storm (Shadow and Bone, #2)  #4 Six of Crows  #5 The Last Kids on Earth: Thrilling Tales from the Tree House  #6 Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone, #3)  #7 Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2)  #8 Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)  #9 Dog Man  #10 King of Scars |
