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: 10/19/2025








Week Ending 10/19/25
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#3 The Impossible Fortune
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Katabasis
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#6 Shadow Ticket
By Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Twice
By Mitch Albom (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#8 Apostle's Cove
By William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#9 Gone Before Goodbye
By Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#13 The Academy
By Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 107 Days
By Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / 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 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#4 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#6 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
#7 Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
By Brené Brown (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#8 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 The Little Frog's Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#10 Awake: A Memoir
By Jen Hatmaker (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 History Matters
By David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#12 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#13 Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop's Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery
By Nick Offerman, Lee Buchanan (Dutton)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#14 Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
By Beth Macy (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 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
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Mate
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#5 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
By Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#8 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#9 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#10 The Briar Club
By Kate Quinn (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $19.99 / 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 Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#13 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 I Cheerfully Refuse
By Leif Enger (Grove Press)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 When the Cranes Fly South
By Lisa Ridzén (Vintage)
Price: $18 / 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 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#4 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
#5 America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
By Randall Balmer (Steerforth)
Price: $13.95 / Get the Book
#6 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green (Dutton)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#8 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
By Anne Applebaum (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
By Art Spiegelman (Pantheon)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#10 That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
By Amanda Jones (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#11 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
#12 The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By Boyce Upholt (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / 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 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Hero of Ages
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#5 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#6 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
By Jules Verne (Bantam Classics)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Great Hunt
By Robert Jordan (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Signet)
Price: $8.95 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
By Richard Scarry (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $4.99 / Get the Book
#3 Hansel and Gretel
By Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#4 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
By Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#7 Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat
By Julien Chung (Beach Lane Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 I'll Love You Till the Bats Say Boo
By Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Room on the Broom
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 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
#3 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#4 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 Fake Skating
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#8 Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#9 Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science)
By Kate McKinnon (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Last Dragon on Mars (Dragonships #1)
By Scott Reintgen (Aladdin)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#3 I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #12)
By Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#4 InvestiGators: Case Files
By John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived, #25)
By Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#6 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #3
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#7 Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #18) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
By Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe
By Abby Hanlon (Dial Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 Lost Evangeline (The Norendy Tales)
By Kate DiCamillo, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#10 Spy School Blackout
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book