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: 08/24/2025
Week Ending 08/24/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

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

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

#5 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#9 The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
By Christopher Golden (Ed.), Brian Keene (Ed.) (Gallery Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

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

#11 Something to Look Forward To: Fictions
By Fannie Flagg (Random House)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#15 Broken Country
By Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

#1 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

#2 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#3 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

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

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

#6 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

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

#8 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#10 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

#11 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#12 Baldwin: A Love Story
By Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

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

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

#15 A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
By Haley Cohen Gilliland (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / 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 When the Cranes Fly South
By Lisa Ridzén (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#8 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

#10 The Ministry of Time
By Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#13 Babel
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#14 Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By Kirsten Miller (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#15 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
By Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
Price: $19 / 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 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

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

#4 No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#8 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

#9 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green (Dutton)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#10 In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty--Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions
By Francis Weller (North Atlantic Books)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book

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

#12 The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By Hampton Sides (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#13 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book

#14 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#15 Educated: A Memoir
By Tara Westover (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#3 Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

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

#9 Hamlet
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#2 Aggie and the Ghost
By Matthew Forsythe (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#5 It's Taco Knight!
By Megan Maynor, Estrela Lourenço (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#6 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 Indestructibles: Baby, See the Colors!
By Ekaterina Trukhan (Illus.) (Workman)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#9 Richard Scarry's Great Big Schoolhouse
By Richard Scarry (Golden Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

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

#2 Orris and Timble: The Beginning
By Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Because of Winn-Dixie
By Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#5 Orris and Timble: Lost and Found
By Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#6 Heir
By Sabaa Tahir (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Wish Switch
By Lynn Painter (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 Game On!
By Kelly Leigh Miller (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 Allergic: A Graphic Novel
By Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / 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 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#5 Rise of the Earth Dragon (Dragon Masters, #1)
By Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.) (Scholastic)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 Grumpy Monkey School Stinks!: A Graphic Novel (Grumpy Monkey Graphic Novels)
By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#9 Mercy Watson to the Rescue
By Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Mysterious Benedict Society
By Trenton Lee Stewart (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book