The Midwest Indie Bestseller List
Explore the bestselling titles in indie bookstores throughout our region
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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: 4/21/2024
Week Ending 4/21/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 Table for Two: Fictions
By Amor Towles (Viking)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 I Cheerfully Refuse
By Leif Enger (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#7 The Husbands
By Holly Gramazio (Doubleday)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#8 The Familiar
By Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#9 Close to Death
By Anthony Horowitz (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 Wandering Stars
By Tommy Orange (Knopf)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#11 A Calamity of Souls
By David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 Before the Coffee Gets Cold
By Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#13 Tom Lake
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 How to Solve Your Own Murder
By Kristen Perrin (Dutton)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#15 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / 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 Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By Anne Lamott (Riverhead Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By Salman Rushdie (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#4 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
#5 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
#6 I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#8 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
By James Clear (Avery)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#9 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / 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 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By David Brooks (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
By Caleb Carr (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By Kao Kalia Yang (Atria Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#14 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By James Kaplan (Penguin Press)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#15 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Just for the Summer
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#2 Throne of Glass
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#3 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#4 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#5 Horse
By Geraldine Brooks (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 Peace Like a River
By Leif Enger (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 A Court of Wings and Ruin
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 West with Giraffes
By Lynda Rutledge (Lake Union Publishing)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
#10 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
By Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#11 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By J.Ryan Stradal (Penguin Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#12 Happy Place
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#13 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By Benjamin Stevenson (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 Hang the Moon: A Novel
By Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
By Allison Pataki (Ballantine Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
By Nina Totenberg (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
By Michelle Obama (Crown)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 A Murder on the Hill: The Secret Life and Mysterious Death of Ruth Munson
By Roger Barr (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Price: $24.95 / Get the Book
#7 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
By Michelle Zauner (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#8 The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
By Katie Holten (Tin House Books)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#9 How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By Clancy Martin (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#10 Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By Sarah Bakewell (Penguin Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
By Larry Loftis (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $21.99 / 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 Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
By Kao Kalia Yang (Coffee House Press)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#14 Wildflowers of Minnesota Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book
#15 Birds of Minnesota Field Guide
By Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 Killing Orders
By Sara Paretsky (William Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Heart of Blood and Ashes
By Milla Vane (Berkley)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Equal Rites
By Terry Pratchett (Harper)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Hero of Ages
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Rock in My Throat
By Kao Kalia Yang, Jiemei Lin (Illus.) (Carolrhoda Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Big
By Vashti Harrison (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
By Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#5 Grumpy Monkey
By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
By Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.) (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Little Blue Truck Feeling Happy
By Alice Schertle (Clarion Books)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Rabbit Listened
By Cori Doerrfeld (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#10 We're Going on a Bear Hunt
By Helen Oxenbury, Michael Rosen (Little Simon)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Reappearance of Rachel Price
By Holly Jackson (Delacorte Press)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#2 Just Keep Walking
By Erin Soderberg Downing (Scholastic Press)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#3 Controlled Burn
By Erin Soderberg Downing (Scholastic Press)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#4 Ferris
By Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Night War
By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#6 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star
By Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Not Quite a Ghost
By Anne Ursu (Walden Pond Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 Lightlark
By Alex Aster (Amulet)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1)
By Jaimal Yogis, Vivian Truong (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / 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 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 Six of Crows
By Leigh Bardugo (Square Fish)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Great Peach Experiment 2: The Peach Pit
By Erin Soderberg Downing (Pixel+Ink)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Winter Turning: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #7)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best?: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 Waverider: A Graphic Novel (Amulet, #9)
By Kazu Kibuishi (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#9 Blue Whale vs. Mosquito (Who Would Win?, #29)
By Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.) (Scholastic)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book