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: 11/30/2025








Week Ending 11/30/25
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#3 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 Dog Show: Poems
By Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.) (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#6 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#7 Queen Esther
By John Irving (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 Brigands & Breadknives
By Travis Baldree (Tor Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#10 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#14 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 There Is No Antimemetics Division
By qntm (Ballantine Books)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / 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 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
#4 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / 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 Bread of Angels: A Memoir
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
By Jill Lepore (Liveright)
Price: $39.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Look
By Michelle Obama (Crown)
Price: $50 / Get the Book
#12 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
#13 Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
By Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $37.99 / Get the Book
#14 Raising Hare: A Memoir
By Chloe Dalton (Pantheon)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#15 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#3 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 Good Spirits
By B.K. Borison (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#8 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 The Will of the Many
By James Islington (S&S/Saga Press)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#10 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#11 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.) (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#12 The Gingerbread Bakery
By Laurie Gilmore (HarperCollins)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Secret Christmas Library
By Jenny Colgan (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 Sandwich
By Catherine Newman (Harper Perennial)
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 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#4 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#5 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By Boyce Upholt (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Book of Kin: On Absence, Love, and Being There
By Jennifer Eli Bowen (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Triumph Books)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#11 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
#12 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#13 Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By Oliver Burkeman (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#14 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
#15 Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms
By Teresa Marrone, Kathy Yerich (Adventure Publications)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Long Walk
By Stephen King (Pocket)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#4 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Catcher in the Rye
By J. D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry (Vintage)
Price: $8.95 / Get the Book
#9 Doctor Faustus
By Christopher Marlowe (Signet)
Price: $6.95 / Get the Book
#10 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
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 How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Knight Owl's Little Christmas
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Humble Pie
By Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 A Snow Day for Amos McGee
By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 A Dance with Santa Claus
By Sandra Boynton (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Smooches!
By Sandra Boynton (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#8 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Little Blue Truck's Christmas
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (HMH Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Mitten
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#2 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Fake Skating
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#5 A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance
By Sophie Jomain (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#6 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 Angelica and the Bear Prince: (A Graphic Novel)
By Trung Le Nguyen (Random House Graphic)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
By Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $21.99 / 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 (Amulet Books)
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 Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe
By Abby Hanlon (Dial Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#10 Dork Diaries 1 Full-Color Edition: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Dork Diaries Full-Color Editions #1)
By Rachel Renée Russell (Aladdin)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book