The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List, as brought to you by
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, March 2, 2025. Based on reporting 
from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The Bones Beneath My Skin
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250890436
4. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
5. Battle Mountain
C.J. Box, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $32, 9780593851050
6. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
7. Show Don't Tell: Stories
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $28, 9780593446737
8. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
9. Dream State
Eric Puchner, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550666
10. We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9781984879325
11. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
12. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
13. The Queens of Crime
Marie Benedict, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250280756
14. Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089
15. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593500224
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
2. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
3. 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
4. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
5. Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982
6. Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871
7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
8. On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437
9. Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
Lydia Kang, M.D., Nate Pedersen, Workman, $25, 9781523524259
10. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
Neko Case, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538710500
11. Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Alton Brown, Gallery Books, $28.99, 9781668064214
12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
13. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, $32, 9781954118461
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. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
2. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
3. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
4. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
5. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
6. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441
7. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
8. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
9. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
10. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
11. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
12. First Lie Wins
Ashley Elston, Penguin, $19, 9780593492932
13. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
14. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
15. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $18, 9780593311448
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $22.99, 9780062397348
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.,, Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
11. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
David Von Drehle, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781476773933
12. Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms
Teresa Marrone, Kathy Yerich, Adventure Publications, $16.95, 9781591939603
13. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama, Crown, $19.99, 9780593237489
14. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
Sarah Rose, Crown, $22, 9780451495099
15. King: A Life
Jonathan Eig, Picador, $23, 9781250335647
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $10.99, 9780451465641
6. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345409874
7. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. The Kill Artist
Daniel Silva, Signet, $10.99, 9780451209337
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
5. Little Freddie Two Pants: (The Dog with Too Many Pants)
Drew Daywalt, Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593691427
6. The Napping House
Audrey Wood, Don Wood (Illus.), Clarion Books, $9.99, 9780544602250
7. Yetis Are the Worst!
Alex Willan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665921770
8. Dragons Are the Worst!
Alex Willan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534485112
9. Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781419750915
10. Saturday Morning at the 'Shop
Keenan Jones, Ken Daley (Illus.), Beach Lane Books, $18.99, 9781665940801
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
3. A Rover's Story
Jasmine Warga, Storytide, $9.99, 9780063113930
4. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $15.99, 9780062691194
5. Scattergood
H.M. Bouwman, Neal Porter Books, $18.99, 9780823457755
6. The Otherwhere Post
Emily J. Taylor, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593404546
7. Matt Sprouts and the Curse of the Ten Broken Toes
Matthew Eicheldinger, Andrews McMeel, $12.99, 9781524888695
8. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
9. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062991324
10. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
3. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234
4. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
5. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
6. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
7. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
8. InvestiGators: Class Action
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250849908
9. It's Not Summer Without You (The Summer I Turned Pretty)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781416995562
10. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074