The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 15, 2024. 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. Somewhere Beyond the Sea
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250881205
2. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277
3. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
4. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
5. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $30, 9780593798607
6. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
7. Burn
Peter Heller, Knopf, $28, 9780593801628
8. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
9. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
10. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
11. By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593497210
12. The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Mai Mochizuki, Jesse Kirkwood (Transl.), Ballantine Books, $23, 9780593726822
13. Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, $30, 9780385547994
14. There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak, Knopf, $30, 9780593801710
15. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
2. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
3. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
5. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $32.50, 9781324036180
6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
7. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss, Viking, $30, 9780593299920
8. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060
9. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $32.50, 9781501183058
10. Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Random House, $35, 9780593729908
11. Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $21.95, 9780807020432
12. Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, St. Martin's Press, $35, 9781250346414
13. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047
14. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
15. Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Jason Stanley, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668056912
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
4. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570
5. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
6. Holly
Stephen King, Scribner, $19.99, 9781668014943
7. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
8. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064
9. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781668055960
10. Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $17.99, 9781982104504
11. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228
12. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
13. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
14. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063279032
15. The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler, Picador, $19, 9781250872272
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932
8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
9. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
10. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
11. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $20, 9780525510321
12. The Happy Hustle Version 2.0: 10 Alignments To Avoid Burnout & Achieve Blissful Balance
Cary Jack, Storybuilders Press, $15.99, 9781954521513
13. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Melissa L. Sevigny, W. W. Norton & Company, $17.99, 9781324076117
14. Conversations with Birds
Priyanka Kumar, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781639550807
15. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686
3. The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. Mistborn: Secret History
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $13.99, 9781250859143
6. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
7. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553293357
8. The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald, Signet, $6.5, 9780593201060
9. The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345325815
10. Carrie
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743664
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat?
Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338891980
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. Bluey's Halloween Mix-and-Match
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593752838
4. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
5. Bedtime Blitz!
Matthew Van Fleet, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $24.99, 9781665958295
6. Mousetronaut Saves the World: Based on a (Partially) True Story
Mark Kelly, C.F. Payne (Illus.), Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781665910224
7. Room on the Broom Special Edition
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593859926
8. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
9. That's Not My Pumpkin...
Fiona Watt, Rachel Wells (Illus.), Usborne, $10.99, 9781805075141
10. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
2. Immortal Dark (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Tigest Girma, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316570381
3. Celestial Monsters
Aiden Thomas, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250822086
4. The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123
5. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
6. A Horse Named Sky
Rosanne Parry, Kirbi Fagan (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062995964
7. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $16.99, 9780062498540
8. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
9. Pearl (A Graphic Novel)
Sherri L. Smith, Christine Norrie (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338029420
10. Swim School: A Bluey Storybook
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752791
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
2. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
3. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741087
4. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
5. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
6. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
7. The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom (The First Cat in Space, #2)
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $11.99, 9780063084124
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $8.99, 9781368051477
9. Mac Undercover (Mac B., Kid Spy, #1)
Mac Barnett, Mike Lowery (Illus.), Orchard Books, $12.99, 9781338143591
10. An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! Volume 4 (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children, $16.99, 9781368071123