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: 04/06/2025
Week Ending 04/06/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

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

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

#5 Heartwood
By Amity Gaige (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / 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 A Drop of Corruption
By Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
By Bob the Drag Queen (Gallery Books)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

#10 Three Days in June
By Anne Tyler (Knopf)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#11 The Dream Hotel
By Laila Lalami (Pantheon)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

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

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

#14 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#15 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

#2 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

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

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

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

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

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

#8 Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
By Elaine Pagels (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir
By Sarah Kendzior (Flatiron Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#10 Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives
By Gretchen Rubin (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#11 Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
By Maggie Smith (Washington Square Press)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#12 I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
By Maria Shriver (The Open Field)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#13 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

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

#15 Memorial Days: A Memoir
By Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

#7 Orbital
By Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#8 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#9 The Unworthy
By Agustina Bazterrica (Scribner)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#11 Devotions
By Mary Oliver (Penguin)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#12 The Breaks
By Ellen Barker (She Writes Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#13 Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
By Jesse Q. Sutanto (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

#15 Still Needs Work
By Ellen Barker (She Writes Press)
Price: $17.95 / 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 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

#3 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

#4 There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / 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 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#7 Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By Cat Bohannon (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#8 On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
By Lee McIntyre (The MIT Press)
Price: $14.95 / Get the Book

#9 The Myth of Sisyphus
By Albert Camus (Vintage)
Price: $16 / Get the Book

#10 ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood
By Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D. (Ballantine Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#11 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

#12 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#13 All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#14 Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#15 Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By Kao Kalia Yang (Atria Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

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

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

#3 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#6 Good Omens
By Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#7 Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#8 All Quiet on the Western Front
By Erich Maria Remarque (Ballantine)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#9 Arcanum Unbounded
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor )
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#10 A Sand County Almanac
By Aldo Leopold (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Nellie's Big Splash
By Cori Doerrfeld (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 Barnyard Dance!
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 Corduroy
By Don Freeman (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book

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

#7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 Home in a Lunchbox
By Cherry Mo (Penguin Workshop)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
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 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Liars Society: A Risky Game
By Alyson Gerber (Scholastic Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#4 Rebellion 1776
By Laurie Halse Anderson (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#5 Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Flower Fairies
By Megan McDonald, Lenny Wen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#6 The One and Only Family
By Katherine Applegate (Storytide)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#7 Allergic: A Graphic Novel
By Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#8 Isle of Ever
By Jen Calonita (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#9 When You Trap a Tiger
By Tae Keller (Yearling)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#10 Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen
By James Robinson, Brian Rea (Illus.) (Penguin Workshop)
Price: $18.99 / 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 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 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

#5 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#6 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Summer I Turned Pretty
By Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

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

#9 Karen's Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #10)
By Ann M. Martin, Shauna J. Grant (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book