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: 04/27/2025
Week Ending 04/27/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

#1 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#2 Say You'll Remember Me
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#6 The Sirens
By Emilia Hart (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

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

#8 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#9 Heartwood
By Amity Gaige (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#10 Strangers in Time
By David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#12 The Quiet Librarian: A Novel
By Allen Eskens (Mulholland Books)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#13 The Antidote
By Karen Russell (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#15 Sky Daddy
By Kate Folk (Random House)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

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

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

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

#5 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

#6 Notes to John
By Joan Didion (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

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

#8 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

#9 Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
By Michael Lewis (Ed.) (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

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

#12 Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
By Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron Books)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book

#13 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
By James Clear (Avery)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#14 Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs
By José Andrés, Richard Wolffe (Ecco)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Tell: A Memoir
By Amy Griffin (The Dial Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

#2 Funny Story
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

#4 Tom Lake
By Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

#6 Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

#8 The Paris Novel
By Ruth Reichl (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#9 Parable of the Sower
By Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Husbands
By Holly Gramazio (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#11 Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By Hwang Bo-reum (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 How to Solve Your Own Murder
By Kristen Perrin (Dutton)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

#14 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#15 Yellowface
By R. F. Kuang (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $18.99 / 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 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

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

#5 On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.) (Ten Speed Graphic)
Price: $16.99 / 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 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#8 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#9 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#10 Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book

#11 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
By Art Spiegelman (Pantheon)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#12 How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie Books)
By Dale Carnegie (Gallery Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#13 Sociopath: A Memoir
By Patric Gagne, Ph.D. (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#14 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book

#15 The U.S. Constitution: Explained--Clause by Clause--for Every American Today
By Ray Raphael (Vintage)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

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

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

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

#4 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Laurel Leaf)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

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

#9 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Eye of the World
By Robert Jordan (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / 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 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#3 Will the Pigeon Graduate?
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#4 Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day
By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#5 Pat the Bunny
By Dorothy Kunhardt (Golden Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#6 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#7 Your Forest
By Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book

#9 Bee: A Peek-Through Board Book
By Britta Teckentrup (Doubleday Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / 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 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#4 If He Had Been with Me
By Laura Nowlin (Sourcebooks Fire)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#5 Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Laura Steven (Wednesday Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#6 Bluey 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book? Hooray!
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#7 Candle Island
By Lauren Wolk (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Where Shadows Bloom
By Catherine Bakewell (HarperCollins)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 Nightweaver (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By R.M. Gray (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#10 A Song for You and I: A Graphic Novel
By K. O'Neill (Random House Graphic)
Price: $13.99 / 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 Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#6 The Hunger Games: Deluxe Edition
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#8 Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
By Tracy Deonn (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

#9 Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#10 Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
By Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book