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: 09/07/2025
Week Ending 09/07/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

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

#3 Apostle's Cove
By William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

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

#5 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

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

#8 The Hallmarked Man
By Robert Galbraith (Mulholland Books)
Price: $40 / Get the Book

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

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

#11 Wild Reverence
By Rebecca Ross (Saturday Books)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#12 Hemlock & Silver
By T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Book of Lost Hours
By Hayley Gelfuso (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#14 Katabasis (Standard Edition)
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#15 The Road to Tender Hearts
By Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 Mother Mary Comes to Me
By Arundhati Roy (Scribner)
Price: $30 / 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 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#4 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / 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 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#7 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

#8 Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
By Nate Bargatze (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book

#10 Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
By Robert B. Reich (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#12 The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

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

#15 Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West
By Peter Cozzens (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

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

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

#4 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#5 The Surrogate Mother
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#6 When the Cranes Fly South
By Lisa Ridzén (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

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

#9 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#12 Iron Lake
By William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Man Who Died Twice
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#14 The Spellshop
By Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Pumpkin Spice Café
By Laurie Gilmore (HarperCollins)
Price: $18.99 / 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 Mysteries of the National Parks: 35 Stories of Baffling Disappearances, Unexplained Phenomena, and More
By Mike Bezemek (Sourcebooks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 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

#5 A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
By Jonn Elledge (The Experiment)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book

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

#7 The Year of Magical Thinking
By Joan Didion (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#8 The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
By Lara Love Hardin (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#9 Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
By John Grisham (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#10 The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
By Rick Atkinson (Holt Paperbacks)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book

#11 I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
By Daniel J. Levitin (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#12 America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
By Randall Balmer (Steerforth)
Price: $13.95 / Get the Book

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

#14 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#15 Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By Austin Frerick (Island Press)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

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

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

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

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

#5 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#7 Oathbringer
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 Binti
By Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Merchant of Venice
By William Shakespeare (S&S)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Hansel and Gretel
By Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#2 Troubling Tonsils!
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#5 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

#7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Halloween
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
By Richard Scarry (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $4.99 / Get the Book

#9 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#10 Buffalo Fluffalo
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 Sisters in the Wind
By Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Hurricane Heist (The Sherlock Society #2)
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Giver
By Lois Lowry (Clarion Books)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#8 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#9 Witchycakes #1: Sweet Magic
By Kara LaReau, Ariane Moreira (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#10 Glorious Rivals
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 Fearful: A Powerless Story (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

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

#3 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

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

#7 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#8 Big Nate: No Harm Done!
By Lincoln Peirce (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
By Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book