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: 6/21/2026








Week Ending 6/21/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
By Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Whistler
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 Land
By Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#6 The Midnight Train
By Matt Haig (Viking)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Carl's Doomsday Scenario
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Villa Coco
By Andrew Sean Greer (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 Contrapposto
By Dave Eggers (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It
By Brooke Averick (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#11 A Parade of Horribles
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#12 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 The Things We Never Say
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#14 Daughters of the Sun and Moon
By Lisa See (Scribner)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#15 The Butcher's Masquerade
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 The Land and Its People: Essays
By David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
By Belle Burden (The Dial Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#4 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#5 Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
By Mac Barnett (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
By Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#8 All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
By Ben Rhodes (Random House)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright: The True Story of Mass Murder in Paradise
By Casey Sherman (Sourcebooks)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#10 This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
By Craig Fehrman (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#11 Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
By Neil deGrasse Tyson (Simon Six)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#12 Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
By J.D. Vance (Harper)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#13 America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries
By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (Crown)
Price: $31 / Get the Book
#14 Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
By Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $13 / Get the Book
#15 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 The Someday Garden
By Ashley Poston (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Angel Down
By Daniel Kraus (Atria Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 Dolly All the Time
By Annabel Monaghan (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 The Deal
By Elle Kennedy (Bloom Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 The Divorce
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#13 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous (Deluxe Edition)
By Autumn K. England (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#15 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#2 A Resistance History of the United States
By Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#3 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#4 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#5 A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By Kevin Fedarko (Scribner)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#6 The Myth of Sisyphus
By Albert Camus (Vintage)
Price: $16 / Get the Book
#7 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World
By Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book
#8 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#9 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
By Erik Larson (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#10 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#11 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book
#12 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / Get the Book
#13 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#14 Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
By Michael Lewis (Ed.) (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By Joe Posnanski (Dutton)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#3 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#5 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#10 Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Dad
By Christian Robinson (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 It's My Bird-Day!
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Jamberry
By Bruce Degen (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book
#8 Grumpy Monkey Father's Day Fuss
By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
By Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
By Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Odder: The Novel
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#2 The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
By Cassandra Calin (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Summer of Second Chances (Deluxe Edition)
By K. L. Walther (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#4 Popcorn
By Rob Harrell (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 Midsummer Sisters (A Graphic Novel)
By Niki Smith (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Heirs
By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#7 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Sherlock Society
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 Wombat Waiting
By Katherine Applegate (Storytide)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 A Cozy Summer Day
By Eliza Wheeler, Eliza Wheeler (Illus.) (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 InvestiGators: Weather or Not
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#2 Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19)
By Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#4 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
By Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
By Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best?: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Tea Dragon Society: (A Graphic Novel) (The Tea Dragon Series #1)
By K. O'Neill (Random House Graphic)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book