The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List, as brought to you by
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from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
3. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
4. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
5. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
7. Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593724996
8. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
9. The Stolen Queen
Fiona Davis, Dutton, $29, 9780593474273
10. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
11. Death of the Author (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Nnedi Okorafor, William Morrow, $30, 9780063391147
12. Homeseeking
Karissa Chen, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $30, 9780593712993
13. Time of the Child
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $28.99, 9781639734207
14. The Favorites
Layne Fargo, Random House, $28, 9780593732045
15. The Heart of Winter
Jonathan Evison, Dutton, $28, 9780593473542
 
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. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
4. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
5. The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy—and Why It Failed
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250790576
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 Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Sharon McMahon, Thesis, $32, 9780593541678
8. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
10. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
11. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
12. Aflame: Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287
13. Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground
Kurt Gray, Pantheon, $28, 9780593317433
14. Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
Brooke Shields, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250346940
15. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
3. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
4. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
5. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
6. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
7. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
8. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
10. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
11. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
12. Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433
13. The Measure
Nikki Erlick, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063204218
14. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
15. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
3. The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Pagan Kennedy, Vintage, $19, 9780593314715
4. Healing After Loss
Martha W. Hickman, Morrow, $18.99, 9780380773381
5. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
6. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
8. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
10. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson, Vintage, $18, 9780375725609
11. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron, Shambhala, $19.95, 9781611803433
12. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle, Penguin Life, $18, 9780452289963
13. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
14. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
15. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
David Von Drehle, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781476773933
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
3. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451669411
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. Othello
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781501146299
6. Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451694727
7. Hiroshima
John Hersey, Vintage, $9.99, 9780679721031
8. The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626
9. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
10. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Girls on the Rise
Amanda Gorman, Loveis Wise (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593624180
2. Moo, Baa, La La La!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9780671449018
3. How to Be Romance with Bluey and Bingo
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593755105
4. Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526
5. Alice in a Winter Wonderland
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593533888
6. Things That Go
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Abrams Appleseed, $9.99, 9781419768811
7. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
8. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illus.), Little Simon, $8.99, 9781442408890
9. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781442450707
10. Cows Are Pink!
Becky Davies, Gareth Lucas (Illus.), Silver Dolphin Books, $8.99, 9781667208299
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Heavenly Tyrant
Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books, $20.99, 9780735269989
2. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
3. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
4. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
5. Charlotte's Web
E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
6. Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019
7. Dating and Dragons
Kristy Boyce, Delacorte Romance, $12.99, 9780593899205
8. Not Quite a Ghost
Anne Ursu, Walden Pond Press, $19.99, 9780062275158
9. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763625894
10. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
2. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
3. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
5. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
6. The Princess in Black and the Kitty Catastrophe
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $14.99, 9781536234091
7. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
8. Spy School Goes Wild
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665934770
9. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
10. The Princess in Black and the Bathtime Battle
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9781536215755