The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, March 2, 2025. Based on reporting from the
independent booksellers of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers 
Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. Battle Mountain (A Joe Pickett Novel #25)
C.J. Box, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $32, 9780593851050
3. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
4. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
6. Dream State
Eric Puchner, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550666
7. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
8. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
9. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
10. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
11. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
12. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593500224
13. The Bones Beneath My Skin
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250890436
14. Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189
15. 44 Poems on Being with Each Other
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, W. W. Norton & Company, $27.99, 9781324086161
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
2. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
3. Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982
4. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
7. I'll Have What She's Having
Chelsea Handler, The Dial Press, $32, 9780593596579
8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
9. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
10. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
11. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
12. Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
Katherine Stewart, Bloomsbury Publishing, $29.99, 9781635578546
13. Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Buddy Levy, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250289186
14. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $34, 9781501183058
15. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
2. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
3. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
4. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
5. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
6. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
7. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
8. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
9. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
10. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441
11. The Crash
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227325
12. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
13. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
14. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
15. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
10. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
12. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
Matt Kracht, Chronicle, $15.95, 9781452174037
13. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $22.99, 9780062397348
14. Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
15. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365293
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
5. Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365309
6. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
7. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
8. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553208849
9. The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626
10. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. The Digger and the Flower
Joseph Kuefler, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780063426429
4. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
5. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
6. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781442450707
7. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801
8. Butt or Face? Volume 2: Revenge of the Butts
Kari Lavelle, Sourcebooks Explore, $14.99, 9781728271200
9. Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $9.99, 9780394800165
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
2. Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth: Book 2
Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866929
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
4. Chickenpox
Remy Lai, Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks, $14.99, 9781250863294
5. Away
Megan E. Freeman, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665959728
6. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
7. Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780061227288
8. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458
9. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
10. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234
3. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
4. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
5. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9780545942157
6. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
7. Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Castle, #1)
Diana Wynne Jones, Greenwillow Books, $11.99, 9780061478789
8. The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Now With a Dog Man Comic!): 25 1/2 
Anniversary Edition
Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, $12.99, 9781338865394
9. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
10. Dog Man Unleashed
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741049