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: 11/10/2024
Week Ending 11/10/24
HARDCOVER FICTION
#1 The Grey Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#3 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 The Mighty Red
By Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#6 The Women
By Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Like Mother, Like Mother
By Susan Rieger (The Dial Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#9 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#10 Playground
By Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Blue Hour
By Paula Hawkins (Mariner Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella
By Nita Prose (Ballantine Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#13 Intermezzo
By Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#14 The Waiting
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
#1 The Message
By Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By Ina Garten (Crown)
Price: $34 / Get the Book
#3 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
#4 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#5 What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
By Sy Montgomery (Atria Books)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#6 What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
By Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 Into the Uncut Grass
By Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn (Illus.) (One World)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#8 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
#9 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
#10 War
By Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#11 Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves
By Stephen Colbert, Evie McGee Colbert (Celadon Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#12 Patriot: A Memoir
By Alexei Navalny (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#13 Carson the Magnificent
By Bill Zehme (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
By Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#15 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
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
#1 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#2 The Pumpkin Spice Café
By Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / 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 The Vegetarian
By Han Kang (Hogarth)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#7 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#8 Absolution
By Alice McDermott (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 The Handmaid's Tale
By Margaret Atwood (Anchor)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#10 Lost and Lassoed
By Lyla Sage (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Berry Pickers
By Amanda Peters (Catapult)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#12 Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.) (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book
#13 No Two Persons
By Erica Bauermeister (St. Martin's Griffin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 A Court of Wings and Ruin
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 The Song of Achilles
By Madeline Miller (Ecco)
Price: $17.99 / 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: $20 / Get the Book
#2 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#4 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
By Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#5 Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love
By Scott Dominic Carpenter (Travelers' Tales)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#8 No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. (Sounds True)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland
By Kevin J. Koch (Indiana University Press)
Price: $25 / Get the Book
#10 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 Caitlin Clark: Raising the Game
By The Athletic (Triumph Books)
Price: $17.95 / Get the Book
#12 Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By Naomi Klein (Picador)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
By (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#14 The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook, 10th Anniversary Edition: 700+ Recipes for Everything You'll Ever Want to Make
By America's Test Kitchen (America's Test Kitchen)
Price: $34.99 / Get the Book
#15 The Best American Essays 2024
By Wesley Morris, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
MASS MARKET
#1 The Hero of Ages
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Laurel Leaf)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Murder on the Red River
By Marcie R. Rendon (Soho Crime)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 Mr. Cavendish, I Presume
By Julia Quinn (Avon )
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#8 Mistborn: Secret History
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book
#9 Arcanum Unbounded
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor )
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#10 Mort
By Terry Pratchett (Harper)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
#1 Construction Site: A Thankful Night
By Sherri Duskey Rinker, Helen Morgan (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#2 Knight Owl and Early Bird
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Five Silly Turkeys
By Salina Yoon (Price Stern Sloan)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#4 Chicka Chicka Ho Ho Ho
By William Boniface, Julien Chung (Illus.) (Beach Lane Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#5 Santa's First Christmas
By Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.) (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 Goodnight Loon
By Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.) (University of Minnesota Press)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book
#7 Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
By Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.) (Chronicle Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Creepy Pair of Underwear!
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 Llama Llama Gives Thanks
By Anna Dewdney (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#10 How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
#1 The Hotel Balzaar
By Kate DiCamillo, Júlia Sardà (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Puppets of Spelhorst (The Norendy Tales)
By Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#3 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Odder
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $16.99 / 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 Orris and Timble: The Beginning
By Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#7 Where the Library Hides
By Isabel Ibañez (Wednesday Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
By Chloe Gong, Erica Waters, Hannah Whitten, Aden Polydoros, Shakira Toussaint, Courtney Gould, Allison Saft, Alex Brown, Tori Bovalino (Ed.) (Page Street YA)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#10 Bog Myrtle
By Sid Sharp (Annick Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
#1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
By Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#2 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#3 The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 Narwhal's Sweet Tooth (A Narwhal and Jelly Book, #9)
By Ben Clanton (Tundra Books)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea (Narwhal and Jelly, #1)
By Ben Clanton (Tundra Books)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
#7 Spy School Goes Wild
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Mr. Lemoncello's Fantabulous Finale (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #6)
By Chris Grabenstein (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 InvestiGators: Class Action
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#10 Pizza and Taco: Best Christmas Ever!: (A Graphic Novel)
By Stephen Shaskan (Random House Graphic)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book