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: 12/15/2024
Week Ending 12/15/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 Wind and Truth
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books)
Price: $39.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Mighty Red
By Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 The Grey Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Intermezzo
By Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#9 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#10 Playground
By Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 Table for Two: Fictions
By Amor Towles (Viking)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#12 We Solve Murders
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#14 All Fours
By Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#15 The Life Impossible
By Matt Haig (Viking)
Price: $30 / 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 The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By Erik Larson (Crown)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By Ina Garten (Crown)
Price: $34 / Get the Book
#4 Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves
By Stephen Colbert, Evie McGee Colbert (Celadon Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#5 A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By Kevin Fedarko (Scribner)
Price: $32.5 / Get the Book
#6 The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
By Sharon McMahon (Thesis)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Doubleday)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#9 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
#10 Cher: The Memoir, Part One
By Cher (Dey Street Books)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
#11 The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book: 100 Best Recipes from the Star Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest
By Lee Svitak Dean, Rick Nelson (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $29.95 / Get the Book
#12 Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
By Joe Posnanski (Dutton)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy
By Tieghan Gerard (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book
#15 What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
By Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#2 Orbital
By Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#3 Wicked
By Gregory Maguire (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 Hello Beautiful
By Ann Napolitano (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#10 The House in the Cerulean Sea
By TJ Klune (Tor)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#11 The River We Remember
By William Kent Krueger (Atria)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#12 Horse
By Geraldine Brooks (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#13 The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#15 The Best American Short Stories 2024
By Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
#1 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#3 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#5 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
By (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#7 World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
By Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever (Ecco)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#8 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
#9 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe (Vintage)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 Greenlights
By Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By Ed Yong (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 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
#13 Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
By Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll, Jr. (Harper Select)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By Tim Alberta (Harper Paperbacks)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#15 The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2025
By Sarah Janssen (World Almanac)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 Oathbringer
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 Words of Radiance
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 Murder at an Irish Christmas
By Carlene O'Connor (Kensington)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Laurel Leaf)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 That Christmas Magic
By Debbie Macomber (Ballantine Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Hero of Ages
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Santa's First Christmas
By Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.) (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Knight Owl and Early Bird
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Alice in a Winter Wonderland
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Mitten
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Where's Bluey? At Christmas
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 Knight Owl
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Bletchley Riddle
By Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By Barbara Robinson (HarperCollins)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Hotel Balzaar
By Kate DiCamillo, Júlia Sardà (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
By Kate McKinnon (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Orris and Timble: The Beginning
By Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Rover's Story
By Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Puppets of Spelhorst
By Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 Stella & Marigold
By Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.99 / 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 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#7 Unraveled Book 9.5 (Keeper of the Lost Cities)
By Shannon Messenger (Aladdin)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
By Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Bad Guys in One Last Thing (The Bad Guys, #20)
By Aaron Blabey (Scholastic Paperbacks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#10 Happy Narwhalidays (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #5)
By Ben Clanton (Tundra Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book