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: 07/06/2025
Week Ending 07/06/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#8 Don't Let Him In
By Lisa Jewell (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#12 Run for the Hills
By Kevin Wilson (Ecco)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

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

#15 Tusk Love
By Thea Guanzon (Random House Worlds)
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 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#6 Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
By Caroline Fraser (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#7 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

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

#9 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

#10 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#11 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#12 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
By Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron Books)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book

#13 Is a River Alive?
By Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $31.99 / Get the Book

#14 Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
By B.Dylan Hollis (DK)
Price: $37.99 / Get the Book

#15 Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
By Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $13 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#8 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#9 Problematic Summer Romance
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#10 The Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book

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

#12 Here One Moment
By Liane Moriarty (Crown)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#13 Do Not Disturb
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#14 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#15 Before Dorothy
By Hazel Gaynor (Berkley)
Price: $19 / 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 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

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

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

#5 Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By Amanda Montell (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#6 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

#7 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

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

#9 Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By Rebecca Boyle (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#10 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By Robert A. Caro (Vintage)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

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

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

#13 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By bell hooks (Washington Square Press)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#14 Dead Wake
By Erik Larson (Broadway)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#15 Kaufman Field Guide To Nature Of The Midwest
By Kenn Kaufman, Kimberly Kaufman, Jeffrey P. Sayre (Mariner Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#4 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#5 Franny and Zooey
By J.D. Salinger (Little Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Illustrated Man
By Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#7 Interview with the Vampire
By Anne Rice (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 Words of Radiance
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 The Wild Robot on the Island
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

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

#3 Odder: An Otter's Story
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#4 Dragons Love Tacos
By Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 Where's Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection
By Martin Handford (Candlewick)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Going to Bed Book
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#7 Jamberry
By Bruce Degen (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Monster at the End of This Book (Sesame Street) (Little Golden Book)
By Jon Stone, Sesame Street (Eds.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#10 Baby Unicorn: Finger Puppet Book
By Victoria Ying (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
By Betty C. Tang (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#4 Snoop
By Gordon Korman (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Outsiders
By S. E. Hinton (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#7 Unico: Hunted (Volume 2): An Original Manga
By Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 Ferris
By Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#10 Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
By C. B. Lee (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $14.99 / 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 Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 InvestiGators
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#7 Catching Fire: Deluxe Edition (The Hunger Games, Book Two)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#8 Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 InvestiGators: Class Action
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 Stuck (A Click Graphic Novel, #7)
By Kayla Miller (Clarion Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book