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: 4/28/2024
Week Ending 4/28/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 Funny Story
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#2 The Familiar
By Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Paris Novel
By Ruth Reichl (Random House)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#7 Table for Two: Fictions
By Amor Towles (Viking)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#8 I Cheerfully Refuse
By Leif Enger (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#10 The Husbands
By Holly Gramazio (Doubleday)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#11 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#12 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#13 Expiration Dates
By Rebecca Serle (Atria)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#14 The Covenant of Water
By Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 Wandering Stars
By Tommy Orange (Knopf)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#4 Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By Salman Rushdie (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#6 The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By James Patterson, Matt Eversmann (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#7 Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#8 The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By Amanda Montell (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#9 Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By Fareed Zakaria (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#10 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
#11 Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By Kao Kalia Yang (Atria Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 Secrets of the Octopus
By Sy Montgomery (National Geographic)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Just for the Summer
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#2 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By Benjamin Stevenson (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Bride
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#4 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
By Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 The Secret Book of Flora Lea
By Patti Callahan Henry (Atria Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#7 Beach Read
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $16 / Get the Book
#8 A Letter to the Luminous Deep
By Sylvie Cathrall (Orbit)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Horse
By Geraldine Brooks (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#10 Happy Place
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#11 The Three-Body Problem
By Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.) (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By J.Ryan Stradal (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#13 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 Throne of Glass
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 Yours Truly
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#4 World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illus.) (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#5 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
By Michelle Zauner (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#6 The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
By Michelle Obama (Crown)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
By Danny Caine (Microcosm Publishing)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#8 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#10 Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By Simon Winchester (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#11 Stay True: A Memoir
By Hua Hsu (Anchor)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#12 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
Price: $15.95 / 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)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#14 Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
By S.C. Gwynne (Scribner)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 Birds of Wisconsin Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
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#1 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 Guards! Guards!
By Terry Pratchett (Harper)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Mary Shelley, et al. (Signet)
Price: $7.95 / Get the Book
#5 A Canticle for Leibowitz
By Walter Miller (Spectra)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Hunting Party
By Lucy Foley (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Dragon's First Taco
By Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#2 Bluey: Butterflies
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#3 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book
#4 The Big Cheese
By Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
By Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
By Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#7 Floof
By Heidi McKinnon (Algonquin Young Readers)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#8 Ready to Soar
By Cori Doerrfeld (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Rabbit Listened
By Cori Doerrfeld (Dial)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Reappearance of Rachel Price
By Holly Jackson (Delacorte Press)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#2 If Only I Had Told Her
By Laura Nowlin (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#3 Nightbane
By Alex Aster (Amulet)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Odder
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#5 A Rover's Story
By Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 Warrior Girl Unearthed
By Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Scholastic Year in Sports 2024
By James Buckley, Jr. (Scholastic)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#8 Ferris
By Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm
By Siobhan McDermott (Delacorte Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Animal Climate Heroes
By Alison Pearce Stevens, Jason Ford (Illus.) (Godwin Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was/Is...?)
By Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.) (Penguin Workshop)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#3 InvestiGators: All Tide Up
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#4 InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse
By John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Dog Man
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #9)
By Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #4)
By Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
By Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
By Holly Jackson (Ember)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
By Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book