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: 07/27/2025
Week Ending 07/27/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#2 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#3 The River Is Waiting
By Wally Lamb (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Enchanted Greenhouse
By Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#5 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
By V. E. Schwab (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#6 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#7 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#8 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#9 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#10 The Bewitching
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#11 Not Quite Dead Yet
By Holly Jackson (Bantam)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#12 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#13 Culpability
By Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#15 The Emperor of Gladness
By Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#2 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#3 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

#4 We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
By Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle (The Dial Press)
Price: $34 / Get the Book

#5 The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
By Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#6 Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
By Dave Hage, Josephine Marcotty (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#7 Mark Twain
By Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
Price: $45 / Get the Book

#8 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#9 Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
By Michael Lewis (Ed.) (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#10 On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
By Christine Brennan (Scribner)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#11 Raising Hare: A Memoir
By Chloe Dalton (Pantheon)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#12 The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
By Rick Atkinson (Crown)
Price: $42 / Get the Book

#13 A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
By Haley Cohen Gilliland (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon
By Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Viking)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#15 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#3 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#4 One Golden Summer
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#5 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
By Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#6 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#8 All the Colors of the Dark
By Chris Whitaker (Crown)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#9 The Briar Club
By Kate Quinn (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#10 Sandwich
By Catherine Newman (Harper Perennial)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#11 The Ministry of Time
By Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 Lone Dog Road
By Kent Nerburn (New World Library)
Price: $21.95 / Get the Book

#13 Funny Story
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#14 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#15 The Safekeep
By Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#2 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#3 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#5 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

#6 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

#7 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book

#8 Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More
By Mike Bezemek (Sourcebooks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#9 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 Birds of Missouri Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book

#11 Common Backyard Weeds of the Upper Midwest
By Teresa Marrone (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book

#12 Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By Kao Kalia Yang (Atria Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#13 Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By Steve Inskeep (Penguin Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#14 No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. (Sounds True)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#15 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#4 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Long Walk
By Stephen King (Pocket)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#6 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Hero of Ages
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#9 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book

#10 The Paris Apartment
By Lucy Foley (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 The Day the Crayons Made Friends
By Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 Where's Waldo?
By Martin Handford (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#5 Millie Fleur Saves the Night
By Christy Mandin (Orchard Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#6 I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
By Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#7 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#8 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#9 Moo, Baa, La La La!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#10 Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#2 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#4 Creaky Acres: A Graphic Novel
By Calista Brill, Nilah Magruder (Illus.) (Kokila)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#5 Dust
By Dusti Bowling (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#7 The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
By Cassandra Calin (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#8 Charlotte's Web
By E.B. White (HarperCollins)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: (A Modern Visual Adaptation of Homer's Epic Tale of Greek Mythology for Young Adults)
By Gareth Hinds (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By Nicholas Day, Brett Helquist (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#3 Dog Man
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Summer I Turned Pretty
By Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#7 It's Not Summer Without You (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
By Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#8 Sunny Figures It Out: A Graphic Novel (Sunny, #6)
By Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 London Calling (City Spies, #6)
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book