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: 12/07/2025








Week Ending 12/07/25
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 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 Dog Show: Poems
By Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.) (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
By Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#11 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#12 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Katabasis
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 The Everlasting
By Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#15 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / 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 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#4 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / 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 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
#7 Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
By Alison Roman (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $37.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#9 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#10 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
#11 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#12 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
#13 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 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
#15 Bread of Angels: A Memoir
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#2 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Isola
By Allegra Goodman (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 The Secret Christmas Library
By Jenny Colgan (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition
By William Goldman (Harper Perennial)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#9 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#10 Good Spirits
By B.K. Borison (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Gingerbread Bakery
By Laurie Gilmore (HarperCollins)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 The Will of the Many
By James Islington (S&S/Saga Press)
Price: $22.99 / 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 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#4 The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Triumph Books)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#5 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#6 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
#7 How to Piss Off Men: 109 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego
By Kyle Prue (Sourcebooks)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
By Morgan Housel (Harriman House)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
By Sonia Purnell (Penguin Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#10 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
By Elyse Graham (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#13 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 The Sheet Pan: 150+ Easy, Creative Meals from Your Most Versatile Pan
By America's Test Kitchen (America's Test Kitchen)
Price: $34.99 / Get the Book
#15 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#6 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#7 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Ghost Brigades
By John Scalzi (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / 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 Knight Owl's Little Christmas
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $8.99 / 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 The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
By Robert Barry (Doubleday)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Mitten
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Smooches!
By Sandra Boynton (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#2 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Bletchley Riddle
By Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Dragonborn
By Struan Murray (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Storytide)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 Fake Skating
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / 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 Lost Evangeline (The Norendy Tales)
By Kate DiCamillo, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
By Annie Barrows (Chronicle)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#6 Mercy Watson to the Rescue
By Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Bad Guys (The Bad Guys, #1)
By Aaron Blabey (Scholastic)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Spy School Blackout
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza (The First Cat in Space, #1)
By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book