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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


Week ending 2/28/2021


HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 The Four Winds
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Vanishing Half
By Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#3 The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig (Viking)
Price: $26 / Get the Book

#4 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
By V.E. Schwab (Tor)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Paris Library
By Janet Skeslien Charles (Atria)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf)
Price: $26.95 / Get the Book

#7 Anxious People
By Fredrik Backman (Atria)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#8 Send for Me
By Lauren Fox (Knopf)
Price: $26.95 / Get the Book

#9 The Sanatorium
By Sarah Pearse (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#10 Mexican Gothic
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#11 My Year Abroad
By Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#12 No One Is Talking About This
By Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead Books)
Price: $25 / Get the Book

#13 The Night Watchman
By Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#14 A Court of Silver Flames
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#15 American Dirt
By Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron Books)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book


HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

#2 How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
By Bill Gates (Knopf)
Price: $26.95 / Get the Book

#3 Four Hundred Souls
By Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain (Eds.) (One World)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#4 Caste
By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#5 The Sum of Us
By Heather McGhee (One World)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 Keep Sharp
By Sanjay Gupta, M.D. (S&S)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#7 Think Again
By Adam Grant (Viking)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#8 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
By George Saunders (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#9 Untamed
By Glennon Doyle (The Dial Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#10 Between Two Kingdoms
By Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#11 The Splendid and the Vile
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#12 Three Ordinary Girls
By Tim Brady (Citadel)
Price: $26 / Get the Book

#13 A Promised Land
By Barack Obama (Crown)
Price: $45 / Get the Book

#14 The Daughters of Kobani
By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Penguin Press)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#15 Wintering
By Katherine May (Riverhead Books)
Price: $24 / Get the Book


TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

#1 The Glass Hotel
By Emily St. John Mandel (Vintage)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#2 Parable of the Sower
By Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Dutch House
By Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#4 The Song of Achilles
By Madeline Miller (Ecco)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#5 Circe
By Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#6 Deacon King Kong
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#7 The House in the Cerulean Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Overstory
By Richard Powers (Norton)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book

#9 The Girl from the Channel Islands
By Jenny Lecoat (Graydon House)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Nightingale
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#11 This Tender Land
By William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#12 Writers & Lovers
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#13 Shuggie Bain
By Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#14 Bridgerton: The Duke and I
By Julia Quinn (Avon)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#15 Milk and Honey
By Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book


TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

#1 Braiding Sweetgrass
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#2 My Grandmother's Hands
By Resmaa Menakem (Central Recovery Press)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book

#3 The Body Keeps the Score
By Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#4 White Fragility
By Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press)
Price: $16 / Get the Book

#5 All Creatures Great and Small
By James Herriot (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#6 Hood Feminism
By Mikki Kendall (Penguin)
Price: $16 / Get the Book

#7 The Body
By Bill Bryson (Anchor )
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#8 The Warmth of Other Suns
By Isabel Wilkerson (Vintage)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book

#9 Stamped from the Beginning
By Ibram X. Kendi (Bold Type Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Truths We Hold
By Kamala Harris (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#11 Sapiens
By Yuval Noah Harari (Harper Perennial)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book

#12 The Gifts of Imperfection
By Brené Brown (Hazelden)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#13 I'll Be Gone in the Dark
By Michelle McNamara (Harper Perennial)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#14 Killers of the Flower Moon
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#15 The Education of an Idealist
By Samantha Power (Dey Street Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book


MASS MARKET

#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#2 Bridgerton: The Duke and I
By Julia Quinn (Avon)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me
By Julia Quinn (Avon)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 A Dance With Dragons
By George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#6 Bridgerton: To Sir Phillip, With Love
By Julia Quinn (Avon)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Princess Bride
By William Goldman (Mariner)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Dry
By Jane Harper (Flatiron Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book


CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (G.P. Putnam's Sons (BYR))
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 We Are Water Protectors
By Carole Lindstrom, Michaela Goade (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#4 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Workman)
Price: $7.95 / Get the Book

#5 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.) (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR))
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 Eric Carle's Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Other Nursery Rhymes
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 Grandmas Are Greater Than Great
By James Solheim, Derek Desierto (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#8 Antiracist Baby
By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.) (Kokila)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#9 Milo Imagines the World
By Matt de la Peña, Christian Robinson (Illus.) (G.P. Putnam's Sons (BYR))
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Most Beautiful Thing
By Kao Kalia Yang, Khoa Le (Illus.) (Carolrhoda Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book


CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 Ground Zero
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#2 Concrete Rose
By Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 When Stars Are Scattered
By Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed (Dial Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#4 Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
By Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

#5 Cat Kid Comic Club
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 When You Trap a Tiger
By Tae Keller (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#8 Living the Confidence Code: Real Girls. Real Stories. Real Confidence.
By Katty Kay, Claire Shipman, JillEllyn Riley (Harper)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Ickabog
By J.K. Rowling (Scholastic)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#10 This Is Your Time
By Ruby Bridges (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book


CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

#1 The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #6)
By Ransom Riggs (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book

#2 Claudia and the New Girl (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #9)
By Ann M. Martin, Gabriela Epstein (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 The Dark Secret (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #4)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#5 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
By Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Last Kids on Earth
By Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.) (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
By J.K.Rowling (Scholastic)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#9 Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
By Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Chronicle)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#10 Logan Likes Mary Anne! (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #8)
By Ann M. Martin, Gale Galligan (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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carrie@midwestbooksellers.org

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