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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

This week's #1 titles


Week ending 1/5/2021


HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books) Price: $27
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#2 The Midnight Library
Matt Haig (Viking) Price: $26
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#3 Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) Price: $27
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#4 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab (Tor) Price: $26.99
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#5 Deacon King Kong
James McBride (Riverhead Books) Price: $28
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#6 The Searcher
Tana French (Viking) Price: $27
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#7 Anxious People
Fredrik Backman (Atria) Price: $28
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#8 Piranesi
Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury Publishing) Price: $27
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#9 Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline (Ballantine) Price: $28.99
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#10 Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi (Knopf) Price: $27.95
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#11 Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam (Ecco) Price: $27.99
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#12 The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
Marie Benedict (Sourcebooks Landmark) Price: $26.99
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#13 Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson (Tor) Price: $34.99
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#14 Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf) Price: $26.95
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#15 The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books) Price: $26
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HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 A Promised Land
Barack Obama (Crown) Price: $45
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#2 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne) Price: $22.99
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#3 Caste
Isabel Wilkerson (Random House) Price: $32
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#4 Wintering
Katherine May (Riverhead Books) Price: $24
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#5 Modern Comfort Food
Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter) Price: $35
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#6 The Best of Me
David Sedaris (Little, Brown) Price: $30
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#7 The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson (Crown) Price: $32
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#8 Untamed
Glennon Doyle (The Dial Press) Price: $28
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#9 What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley (Knopf) Price: $35
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#10 World of Wonders
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illus.) (Milkweed Editions) Price: $25
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#11 Dessert Person
Claire Saffitz (Clarkson Potter) Price: $35
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#12 Bag Man
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz (Crown) Price: $28
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#13 100 Cookies
Sarah Kieffer (Chronicle Books) Price: $27.5
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#14 A Wealth of Pigeons
Steve Martin, Harry Bliss (Illus.) (Celadon Books) Price: $28
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#15 Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh (Gallery Books) Price: $30
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TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger (Atria) Price: $17
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#2 Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart (Grove Press) Price: $17
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#3 The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller (Ecco) Price: $16.99
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#4 Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu (Vintage) Price: $16
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#5 Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central) Price: $16.99
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#6 Circe
Madeline Miller (Back Bay) Price: $16.99
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#7 Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston (St. Martin's Griffin) Price: $16.99
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#8 The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis (Vintage) Price: $16.95
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#9 The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World) Price: $18
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#10 Kindred
Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press) Price: $16
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#11 Devotions
Mary Oliver (Penguin) Price: $20
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#12 Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi (Vintage) Price: $16.95
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#13 Normal People
Sally Rooney (Hogarth) Price: $17
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#14 The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune (Tor) Price: $18.99
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#15 Still Life
Louise Penny (St. Martin's) Price: $17.99
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TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 What Unites Us
Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner (Algonquin Books) Price: $16.95
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#2 Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions) Price: $18
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#3 The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson (Vintage) Price: $17.95
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#4 Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
Pete Souza (Voracious) Price: $19.99
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#5 The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin) Price: $19
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#6 So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo (Seal Press) Price: $16.99
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#7 Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial) Price: $24.99
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#8 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell (Melville House) Price: $17.99
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#9 Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino (Random House) Price: $18
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#10 The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander (New Press) Price: $18.99
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#11 Come as You Are
Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. (S&S) Price: $18.99
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#12 The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein (Liveright) Price: $17.95
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#13 The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre (Crown) Price: $18
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#14 My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem (Central Recovery Press) Price: $17.95
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#15 A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
Sun Yung Shin (Ed.) (Minnesota Historical Society Press) Price: $18.95
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MASS MARKET

#1 Dune
Frank Herbert (Ace) Price: $10.99
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#2 1984
George Orwell (Signet) Price: $9.99
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#3 The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) Price: $9.99
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#4 Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck (Penguin) Price: $12
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#5 The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) Price: $9.99
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#6 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou (Ballantine) Price: $7.99
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#7 My Antonia
Willa Cather (Signet ) Price: $5.95
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#8 Roughing It
Mark Twain (Signet ) Price: $6.95
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#9 Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card (Tor) Price: $7.99
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#10 The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
(Merriam-Webster) Price: $8.5
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CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Cozy
Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers) Price: $18.99
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#2 The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats (Viking Books for Young Readers) Price: $19.99
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#3 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle (Putnam) Price: $10.99
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#4 Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.) (Kokila) Price: $8.99
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#5 The Shortest Day
Susan Cooper, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Candlewick) Price: $17.99
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#6 Julian Is a Mermaid
Jessica Love (Candlewick) Price: $16.99
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#7 Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.) (Chronicle Books) Price: $15.99
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#8 The Wanderer
Peter Van den Ende (Levine Querido) Price: $21.99
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#9 Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Kevin Noble Maillard, Juana Martinez-Neal (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press) Price: $18.99
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#10 This Is a Book of Shapes
Kenneth Kraegel (Candlewick) Price: $8.99
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CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey (Graphix) Price: $12.99
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#2 When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed (Dial Books) Price: $12.99
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#3 Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Price: $18.99
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#4 We Were Liars
E. Lockhart (Ember) Price: $10.99
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#5 The Silver Arrow
Lev Grossman (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Price: $16.99
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#6 Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai (Illus.) (Levine Querido) Price: $18.99
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#7 This Is Your Time
Ruby Bridges (Delacorte Books for Young Readers) Price: $15.99
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#8 The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
Frederick Joseph (Candlewick) Price: $17.99
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#9 One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus (Delacorte Press) Price: $17.99
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#10 They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera (Quill Tree Books) Price: $11.99
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CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 The Dark Secret (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #4)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix) Price: $12.99
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#2 The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien (HMH Books for Young Readers) Price: $12.99
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#3 The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Price: $9.99
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#4 The Dragonet Prophecy Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix) Price: $12.99
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#5 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Jeff Kinney (Abrams) Price: $14.99
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#6 The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, Book Five)
Rick Riordan (Hyperion) Price: $19.99
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#7 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan (Hyperion ) Price: $7.99
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#8 Big Game (FunJungle)
Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) Price: $8.99
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#9 Kristy's Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #1)
Ann M. Martin, Raina Telgemeier (Illus.) (Scholastic) Price: $10.99
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#10 Boy-Crazy Stacey (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #7)
Ann M. Martin, Gale Galligan (Illus.) (Graphix) Price: $10.99
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