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: 5/3/2026








Week Ending 5/3/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
By Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#3 We Burned So Bright
By TJ Klune (Tor Books)
Price: $25.99 / Get the Book
#4 Kin
By Tayari Jones (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#5 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#6 The Night We Met (Indie Exclusive Edition)
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Go Gentle
By Maria Semple (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Into the Blue
By Emma Brodie (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 The Keeper
By Tana French (Viking)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 Transcription
By Ben Lerner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $25 / Get the Book
#11 American Fantasy
By Emma Straub (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 The Ending Writes Itself
By Evelyn Clarke (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Cherry Baby
By Rainbow Rowell (William Morrow)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 Carl's Doomsday Scenario
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About: A Memoir
By Isabel Klee (William Morrow)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
By Belle Burden (The Dial Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
By Alice Hoffman (Ed.) (Scribner)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#4 How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
By Jenny Lawson (Penguin Life)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
By Michael Pollan (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 Joyful, Anyway
By Kate Bowler (The Dial Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#10 Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
By Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $13 / Get the Book
#11 One Scan Saved My Life: How One Woman's Story Will Change the Way We Detect Lung Cancer
By Shira Kupperman Boehler (Skyhorse)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#12 This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
By Craig Fehrman (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#13 The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
By Steve Brusatte (Mariner Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#14 Famesick: A Memoir
By Lena Dunham (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work
By Jodi Kantor (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $25 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 Project Hail Mary (Movie Tie-In)
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 James
By Percival Everett (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 King of Gluttony
By Ana Huang (Bloom Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Ghostwriter (Deluxe Edition)
By Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#10 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 The Names
By Florence Knapp (Penguin Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 The Road to Tender Hearts
By Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.) (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / 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 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 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
#4 Memorial Days: A Memoir
By Geraldine Brooks (Penguin Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 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
#6 Mutual Aid: New and Expanded Edition: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
By Dean Spade (Verso)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#7 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#8 Retracing the Dragoon Trail in Iowa: Environmental Transformation along the Des Moines River
By Kevin T. Mason (Michigan State University Press)
Price: $34.95 / Get the Book
#9 The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#10 The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By Evan Friss (Penguin Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#12 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 Birds of Wisconsin Field Guide (Bird Identification Guides)
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#15 Plant This, Not That: Over 200 Native Plant Swaps for a More Sustainable, Pollinator-Friendly Garden
By Elise Howard (Workman Publishing Company)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Lord of the Flies
By William Golding (Penguin)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#5 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#8 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 It Can't Happen Here
By Sinclair Lewis (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 It's My Bird-Day!
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#4 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
By Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.) (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 Construction Site: Firefight!
By Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Dragons Love Tacos
By Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Buffalo Fluffalo
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
By Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 A Fishboy Named...Sashimi
By Dan Santat (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Storytide)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic: Or, Like Lightning in an Umbrella Storm
By Philip C. Stead (Neal Porter Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Odder: The Novel
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 Because of Winn-Dixie
By Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Faraway Inn
By Sarah Beth Durst (Delacorte Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#8 Drama: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#10 A Wolf Called Fire
By Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 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
#2 Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
By Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#3 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#4 Dog Man
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#6 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#7 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #3
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#8 InvestiGators: Heist and Seek
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 Six of Crows
By Leigh Bardugo (Square Fish)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book