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: 6/14/2026








Week Ending 6/14/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 Whistler
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
By Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 Land
By Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#5 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 The Midnight Train
By Matt Haig (Viking)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Villa Coco: A Novel
By Andrew Sean Greer (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Carl's Doomsday Scenario
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 Our Perfect Storm
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 The Things We Never Say
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#11 Daughters of the Sun and Moon: A Novel
By Lisa See (Scribner)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#12 Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It
By Brooke Averick (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#13 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 A Parade of Horribles
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / 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 View from the East Wing: A Memoir
By Jill Biden (Gallery Books)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / 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 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
#8 Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
By Neil deGrasse Tyson (Simon Six)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#9 Famesick: A Memoir
By Lena Dunham (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
By Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $13 / Get the Book
#11 Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America
By Andrew Weissmann (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#12 The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright: The True Story of Mass Murder in Paradise
By Casey Sherman (Sourcebooks)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#13 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
#14 The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader
By Melissa Murray (37 Ink)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
By Mac Barnett (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $20 / 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 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 The Divorce
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Deal
By Elle Kennedy (Bloom Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Road to Tender Hearts
By Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 Dolly All the Time
By Annabel Monaghan (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 The Knight and the Moth (Indie Exclusive Edition)
By Rachel Gillig (Orbit)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#12 Angel Down
By Daniel Kraus (Atria Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 James
By Percival Everett (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 Bromantasy
By Máire Roche (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#15 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 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
#2 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
#3 A Resistance History of the United States
By Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#4 Is a River Alive?
By Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#7 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / Get the Book
#8 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#10 How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By Daniel Immerwahr (Picador)
Price: $23 / Get the Book
#11 Communion: The Female Search for Love
By bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#12 Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
By Karen Hao (Penguin Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 Founding Mothers
By Cokie Roberts (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#14 Things in Nature Merely Grow
By Yiyun Li (Picador)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 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
MASS MARKET
#1 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#3 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#5 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#6 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#7 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#8 Oathbringer
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Dad
By Christian Robinson (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book
#4 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
By Jessie Sima (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#7 Axolotl-Ella: A Sort-of Cinderella Story
By Kate Messner, Lian Cho (Illus.) (Ten Speed Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Oh, the Places You'll Go!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?: Stamped Edges Special Edition
By Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.) (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 Bluey: The Decider
By Penguin Young Readers (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Summer of Second Chances (Deluxe Edition)
By K. L. Walther (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
By Cassandra Calin (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Sherlock Society
By James Ponti (Aladdin)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Odder: The Novel
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 Wombat Waiting
By Katherine Applegate (Storytide)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Storytide)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Heirs
By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Outsiders
By S. E. Hinton (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence
By Neil Gorsuch, Janie Nitze, Chris Ellison (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $21.99 / 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 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Inheritance Games
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dog Man and Cat Kid
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#9 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book