Hardcover. for the week ending 1/7/2018. Midwest Connections Pick

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1 Indie Midwest Bestsellers Indie Bestsellers Hardcover FICTION 1. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 2. Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $26 3. Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders, Random House, $28 4. The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn, Morrow, $ Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27 6. The Power Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26 7. Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30 8. Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $27 9. Robicheaux James Lee Burke, S&S, $ Origin Dan Brown, Doubleday, $ Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman, Pamela Dorman Books, $ Artemis Andy Weir, Crown, $ The Wanted Robert Crais, Putnam, $ Exit West Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $26 NONFICTION 1. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Michael Wolff, Holt, $30 2. Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $40 3. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter Margareta Magnusson, Scribner Book Co, 4. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35 5. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Caroline Fraser, Metropolitan Books, $35 6. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil degrasse Tyson, Norton, $ Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Doubleday, $ Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $ Women & Power Mary Beard, Liveright, $ The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck Mark Manson, HarperOne, $ We Were Eight Years in Power Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $ Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $ Smitten Kitchen Every Day Deb Perelman, Knopf, $ Braving the Wilderness Brene Brown, Random House, $ The Whole30 Melissa Hartwig, Dallas Hartwig, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt. People (Book of the Week) An insightful, highly significant account that makes no predictions but lays out the critical environmental problems already upon us. --Kirkus starred review

2 Paperback FICTION 1. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $ All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $17 5. Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16 6. Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $17 7. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16 8. History of Wolves Emily Fridlund, Grove Press, $16 9. The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $ The Women in the Castle Jessica Shattuck, Morrow, $ Celine Peter Heller, Vintage, $ The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ The Dry Jane Harper, Flatiron, $ Call Me by Your Name Andre Aciman, Picador USA, $ News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $15.99 Mass Market 1. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ Ready Player One Ernest Cline, Broadway, $ No Middle Name Lee Child, Dell, $ The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $ Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $ Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $ Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $ The Death Dealer Heather Graham, Mira, $ Winter s Child Margaret Coel, Berkley, $ A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $7.95 NONFICTION 1. On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $ Janesville: An American Story Amy Goldstein, S&S, $16 3. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 4. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi, Nation Books, $ You Are a Badass Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16 6. Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador USA, $16 7. Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $10 8. White Trash Nancy Isenberg, Penguin, $17, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win Luke Harding, Vintage, $ Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Harper Perennial, $ Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump s America Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Kate Harding, Picador USA, $ Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $ The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $ Dreamland: The True Tale of America s Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones, Bloomsbury, $ Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18 Fridlund shines a spotlight on what gets hidden and unreported, and the result can be overwhelming cutting and funny and filled with difficult truth. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

3 Children s ILLUSTRATED 1. The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Children s Books, $ Ada Twist, Scientist Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $ Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth Oliver Jeffers, Philomel, $ On the Night You Were Born Nancy Tillman, Feiwel & Friends, $ A Is for Activist Innosanto Nagara, Triangle Square, $ Creepy Pair of Underwear! Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster (BYR), $ Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury (Illus.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (BYR), $ Good Day, Good Night Margaret Wise Brown, Loren Long (Illus.), Harper, 9. Good Night, Gorilla Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $ Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99 Children s Series Titles 1. Dog Man and Cat Kid Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $ Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $ Dog Man Unleashed Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ The Princess in Black Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $ Mighty Jack and the Goblin King Ben Hatke, First Second, $14.99, Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus Barbara Park, Denise Brunkas (Illus.), Random House (BYR), $ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $ We Are in an ART-ivity Book! (Elephant & Piggie) Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $14.99 YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE 1. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L Engle, Square Fish, $ Wonder R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $ The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $ The Hate U Give Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $ Turtles All the Way Down John Green, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $ The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $ The Cruel Prince Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 8. Smile Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $ Drama Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $ The Thing About Jellyfish Ali Benjamin, Little Brown, $8.99 A wonderfully clever and ultimately triumphant journey of self-discovery... Little i may be a mere cutout letter, but his humanity shines through. New York Times Book Review This book could not be cuter or more clever. Annie Silvestro... is a lyrical writer who knows exactly what kind of creative detail will spark a reader s imagination. Teagan White s illustrations are warm and comforting, and push the cuteness factor into overdrive. A winner of a winter s tale. --USA Today

4 Fiction HARDCOVER 1. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 2. Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $26 3. Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders, Random House, $28 4. The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn, Morrow, $ Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27 6. The Power Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26 7. Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30 8. Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $27 9. Robicheaux James Lee Burke, S&S, $ Origin Dan Brown, Doubleday, $ Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman, Pamela Dorman Books, $ Artemis Andy Weir, Crown, $ The Wanted Robert Crais, Putnam, $ Exit West Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $26 PAPERBACK 1. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $ All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $17 5. Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16 6. Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $17 7. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16 8. History of Wolves Emily Fridlund, Grove Press, $16 9. The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $ The Women in the Castle Jessica Shattuck, Morrow, $ Celine Peter Heller, Vintage, $ The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ The Dry Jane Harper, Flatiron, $ Call Me by Your Name Andre Aciman, Picador USA, $ News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $15.99 Another gorgeous, brutal masterpiece from a great American writer. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A stunning tour de force centered in a small cattle ranching town. Foreword starred review If Willa Cather and Cormac McCarthy had a love child, she would be a writer such as Fraterrigo. Booklist

5 Nonfiction HARDCOVER PAPERBACK Mass Market 1. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Michael Wolff, Holt, $30 2. Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $40 3. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter Margareta Magnusson, Scribner Book Co, 4. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35 5. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Caroline Fraser, Metropolitan Books, $35 6. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil degrasse Tyson, Norton, $ Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Doubleday, $ Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $ Women & Power Mary Beard, Liveright, $ The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck Mark Manson, HarperOne, $ We Were Eight Years in Power Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $ Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $ Smitten Kitchen Every Day Deb Perelman, Knopf, $ Braving the Wilderness Brene Brown, Random House, $ The Whole30 Melissa Hartwig, Dallas Hartwig, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 1. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ Ready Player One Ernest Cline, Broadway, $ No Middle Name Lee Child, Dell, $ The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $ Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $ Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $ Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $ The Death Dealer Heather Graham, Mira, $ Winter s Child Margaret Coel, Berkley, $ A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $ On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $ Janesville: An American Story Amy Goldstein, S&S, $16 3. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 4. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi, Nation Books, $ You Are a Badass Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16 6. Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador USA, $16 7. Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $10 8. White Trash Nancy Isenberg, Penguin, $17, Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win Luke Harding, Vintage, $ Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Harper Perennial, $ Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump s America Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Kate Harding, Picador USA, $ Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $ The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $ Dreamland: The True Tale of America s Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones, Bloomsbury, $ Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18 Sherman is doing some of the most important culinary work in America. In The Sioux Chef s Indigenous Kitchen, he takes a forward-thinking approach to indigenous cuisine, bringing his culture into the light to share with the rest of the world. Sean Brock, James Beard award winner