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: 03/02/2025
Week Ending 03/02/25
HARDCOVER FICTION

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

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

#3 The Bones Beneath My Skin
By TJ Klune (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 Battle Mountain
By C.J. Box (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#6 Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#7 Show Don't Tell: Stories
By Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#8 Iron Flame
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#9 Dream State
By Eric Puchner (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#10 We All Live Here
By Jojo Moyes (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#11 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
By Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#13 The Queens of Crime
By Marie Benedict (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#14 Isola
By Allegra Goodman (The Dial Press)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#15 Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
By Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
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 How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
By Mariann Edgar Budde (Avery)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#3 The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
By Mel Robbins (Hay House LLC)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 Memorial Days: A Memoir
By Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
By Susan Morrison (Random House)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

#7 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

#8 On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
By Rick Steves (Rick Steves)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
By Lydia Kang, M.D., Nate Pedersen (Workman )
Price: $25 / Get the Book

#10 The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
By Neko Case (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#11 Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
By Alton Brown (Gallery Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#12 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#13 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#14 The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#15 The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
By Chris Hayes (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / 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 Orbital
By Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

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

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

#6 Deep End
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

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

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

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

#10 The Handmaid's Tale
By Margaret Atwood (Anchor)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#11 The House in the Cerulean Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 First Lie Wins
By Ashley Elston (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#13 The Nightingale
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#14 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#15 Wandering Stars
By Tommy Orange (Vintage)
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 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#3 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / 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 Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By Cat Bohannon (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#7 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#8 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 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

#11 The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By David Von Drehle (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms
By Teresa Marrone, Kathy Yerich (Adventure Publications)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#13 The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
By Michelle Obama (Crown)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#14 D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
By Sarah Rose (Crown)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#15 King: A Life
By Jonathan Eig (Picador)
Price: $23 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET

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

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

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

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

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

#6 Women Who Run With the Wolves
By Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Ballantine)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#7 Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou (Ballantine)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 The Kill Artist
By Daniel Silva (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

#1 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#2 I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
By Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

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

#4 Good Night, Gorilla
By Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#5 Little Freddie Two Pants: (The Dog with Too Many Pants)
By Drew Daywalt, Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Napping House
By Audrey Wood, Don Wood (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#7 Yetis Are the Worst!
By Alex Willan (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Dragons Are the Worst!
By Alex Willan (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#9 Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn
By Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.) (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 Saturday Morning at the 'Shop
By Keenan Jones, Ken Daley (Illus.) (Beach Lane Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST

#1 A Wolf Called Fire
By Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.) (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#3 A Rover's Story
By Jasmine Warga (Storytide)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#4 New Kid
By Jerry Craft (Quill Tree Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#5 Scattergood
By H.M. Bouwman (Neal Porter Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Otherwhere Post
By Emily J. Taylor (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book

#7 Matt Sprouts and the Curse of the Ten Broken Toes
By Matthew Eicheldinger (Andrews McMeel)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#8 Odder
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#9 The One and Only Bob
By Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#10 Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES

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

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

#3 Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
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 InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
By John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

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

#7 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#8 InvestiGators: Class Action
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 It's Not Summer Without You (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
By Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

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