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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. We release the list via email to 1,500 members throughout the industry every Wednesday afternoon and also post it here. We thank the American Booksellers Association for their generous work of compiling the data from indie bookstores across the country every week.
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This week's #1 titles
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Week ending 9/19/2021
HARDCOVER FICTION #1 Harlem Shuffle  #2 Matrix  #3 The Madness of Crowds  #4 Beautiful World, Where Are You  #5 Lightning Strike  #6 Apples Never Fall  #7 The Midnight Library  #8 Poison for Breakfast  #9 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois  #10 The Hill We Climb  #11 A Slow Fire Burning  #12 Billy Summers  #13 The Paper Palace  #14 The Magician  #15 The Guide |
HARDCOVER NONFICTION #1 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse  #2 Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law  #3 Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice  #4 Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village  #5 Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement  #6 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet  #7 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents  #8 Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution  #9 Beautiful Country: A Memoir  #10 Poet Warrior: A Memoir  #11 Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest  #12 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir  #13 On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint  #14 This Is Your Mind on Plants  #15 American Marxism |
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION #1 The Night Watchman  #2 Anxious People  #3 Hamnet  #4 Circe  #5 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo  #6 The Song of Achilles  #7 Where the Crawdads Sing  #8 The Silent Patient  #9 This Tender Land  #10 The Rose Code  #11 The Guest List  #12 People We Meet on Vacation  #13 The Thursday Murder Club  #14 The House in the Cerulean Sea  #15 Migrations |
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION #1 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants  #2 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma  #3 The Best of Me  #4 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI  #5 All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis  #6 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America  #7 The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive  #8 The Old Farmer's Almanac 2022  #9 Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation  #10 A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)  #11 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom  #12 Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)  #13 Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family  #14 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind  #15 Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms |
MASS MARKET #1 Dune  #2 1984  #3 The Wise Man's Fear  #4 Lord of the Flies  #5 The Name of the Wind  #6 Animal Farm  #7 The Diary of a Young Girl  #8 Dune Messiah  #9 The Eye of the World  #10 Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me |
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED #1 Goodnight Moon  #2 We Are Water Protectors  #3 The Very Hungry Caterpillar  #4 Room on the Broom  #5 Good Night, Good Night  #6 Norman Didn't Do It!: (Yes, He Did)  #7 Boo! Baa, La La La!  #8 The Going to Bed Book  #9 Little Blue Truck  #10 Bright Star |
CHILDREN'S INTEREST #1 Firekeeper's Daughter  #2 Willodeen  #3 Friends Forever  #4 Iron Widow  #5 Defy the Night  #6 See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat  #7 Drama  #8 Song for a Whale  #9 Cat Kid Comic Club  #10 Hooky |
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES #1 Pax, Journey Home  #2 The Dragonet Prophecy Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire)  #3 The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)  #4 Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)  #5 The Last Kids on Earth and the Doomsday Race  #6 Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!  #7 Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger, #2)  #8 Kristy and the Snobs: (Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #10)  #9 Max and the Midknights (Max & The Midknights #1)  #10 Skunk and Badger |
