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: 3/29/2026








Week Ending 3/29/26
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 The Night We Met (Indie Exclusive Edition)
By Abby Jimenez (Hachette Book Group)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 Judge Stone
By James Patterson, Viola Davis (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#4 Between Two Fires
By Christopher Buehlman (Tor Nightfire)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#5 Lady Tremaine
By Rachel Hochhauser (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#6 Python's Kiss: Stories
By Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 The Night We Met (Standard Edition)
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#8 The Night We Met (Deluxe Edition)
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Kate Quinn (William Morrow)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 Carl's Doomsday Scenario
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#12 Kin
By Tayari Jones (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#13 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#14 Operation Bounce House
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 Daughter of Egypt
By Marie Benedict (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
By Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $13 / Get the Book
#3 The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
By Alice Hoffman (Ed.) (Scribner)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#4 A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
By Michael Pollan (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#5 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
By Belle Burden (The Dial Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Stand
By Cory Booker (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#8 Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences
By Neal Allen, Anne Lamott (Avery)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#9 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#10 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#11 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#13 We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
By Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower (Ballantine Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#14 History Matters
By David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#15 Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
By Ibram X. Kendi (One World)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
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 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 Heated Rivalry
By Rachel Reid (Carina Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 The Seed Keeper
By Diane Wilson (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#10 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#11 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#12 The Nightingale
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#13 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#14 Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
By Emily Brontë (Penguin Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#15 The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
By Anna Johnston (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $18.99 / 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: $22 / Get the Book
#2 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
#3 The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#4 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
#5 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 Raising Hare: A Memoir
By Chloe Dalton (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#7 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
#8 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#10 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / Get the Book
#11 Midwest Gardener's Handbook, 2nd Edition: All You Need to Know to Plan, Plant & Maintain a Midwest Garden
By Melinda Myers (Cool Springs Press)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#12 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#14 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#15 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / 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 Children of Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#7 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 A Game of Thrones
By George R.R. Martin (Random House Worlds)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 If We Were Dogs
By Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 I Am a Bunny
By Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#7 Little Blue Truck's Springtime
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#8 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.) (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 Good Night, Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#2 Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
By A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.) (Aladdin)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria
By L.M. Wilkinson, Lavanya Naidu (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#5 The House on Rondo
By Debra J. Stone (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#6 The Unlikely Tale of Chase and Finnegan
By Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Lost Library
By Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2026
By Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs: 100+ Recipes that You'll Love to Cook and Eat
By America's Test Kitchen Kids (Sourcebooks Explore)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire, Book 16)
By Tui T. Sutherland (Scholastic Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#3 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
#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 Pizza and Taco: Go Viral!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe
By Abby Hanlon (Dial Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#9 InvestiGators
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Big Nate: Code Red!
By Lincoln Peirce (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
