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: 10/26/2025








Week Ending 10/26/25
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#2 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#4 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#5 Twice
By Mitch Albom (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
By Harper Lee (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
By Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#8 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 The Impossible Fortune
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 A Guardian and a Thief
By Megha Majumdar (Knopf)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#12 The Proving Ground
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 Gone Before Goodbye
By Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 Shadow Ticket
By Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#4 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
By Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#5 Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
By Joyce Vance (Dutton)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 Finding My Way: A Memoir
By Malala Yousafzai (Atria Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#9 Delivering the Wow: Culture as Catalyst for Lasting Success
By Richard Fain (Fast Company Press)
Price: $28.95 / Get the Book
#10 107 Days
By Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
By John Fugelsang (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#12 Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop's Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery
By Nick Offerman, Lee Buchanan (Dutton)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#13 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#14 History Matters
By David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#15 All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
By Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Mate
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 Good Spirits
By B. K. Borison (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#5 When the Cranes Fly South
By Lisa Ridzén (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Empusium
By Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#10 Playground
By Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#11 Vineland
By Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Books)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#12 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.) (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#13 The Best American Short Stories 2025
By Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#15 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
By Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By David Brooks (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#5 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#8 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book
#9 That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
By Amanda Jones (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Best American Essays 2025
By Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#11 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#12 Dear Marty, We Crapped in Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World
By Art Cullen (Ice Cube Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience
By Plestia Alaqad (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
By Richard Dawkins, Jana Lenzova (Illus.) (Yale University Press)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#15 The Myth of Sisyphus
By Albert Camus (Vintage)
Price: $16 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Oathbringer
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Gardens of the Moon
By Steven Erikson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Long Walk
By Stephen King (Pocket)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#7 Still Life
By Louise Penny (St. Martin's)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 Warbreaker
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#9 Mona Lisa Overdrive
By William Gibson (Spectra)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Room on the Broom
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#2 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
By Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Mitten
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 Hansel and Gretel
By Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#7 Murray's Howl-o-ween: A Halloween Picture Book
By E.G. Keller (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt (A Little Ghost Quilt Book)
By Riel Nason, Byron Eggenschwiler (Illus.) (Tundra Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Baby Unicorn: Finger Puppet Book
By Victoria Ying (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#3 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Fake Skating
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#5 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Rise of Neptune (Dragonships #2)
By Scott Reintgen (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Scarlet Morning
By ND Stevenson (Quill Tree Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 Howl's Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition
By Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
#9 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
By Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Outsiders
By S. E. Hinton (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
By Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#3 I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived, #25)
By Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#4 Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #18) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
By Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Lost Evangeline (The Norendy Tales)
By Kate DiCamillo, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe
By Abby Hanlon (Dial Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#7 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#8 Spy School Blackout
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Who Would Win?: The Ultimate Rumble Collection
By Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.) (Scholastic)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #12)
By Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book