Indie Midwest Bestsellers Indie Bestsellers Hardcover FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26 2. There There Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95 3. Circe Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27 4. Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99 5. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 6. The Overstory Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95 7. Virgil Wander Leif Enger, Grove Press, $27 8. Kingdom of the Blind Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99 9. My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite, Doubleday, $22.95 10. Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $26 11. An American Marriage Tayari Jones, Algonquin, $26.95 12. The New Iberia Blues James Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99 13. An Anonymous Girl Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, St. Martin s, $27.99 14. Night of Miracles Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $26 15. The Great Alone Kristin Hannah, St. Martin s, $28.99 NONFICTION 1. Becoming Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50 2. Educated Tara Westover, Random House, $28 3. Girl, Wash Your Face Rachel Hollis, Thomas Nelson, $22.99 4. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99 5. The Library Book Susan Orlean, S&S, $28 6. Be Fearless Jean Case, S&S, $25 7. Almost Everything Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20 8. Whose Boat Is This Boat? The Staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, S&S, $14.99 9. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari, Spiegel & Grau, $28 10. These Truths Jill Lepore, Norton, $39.95 11. Heartland Sarah Smarsh, Scribner, $26 12. How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $28 13. Calypso David Sedaris, Little Brown, $28 14. Leadership: In Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $30 15. Gmorning, Gnight! Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22 Abby Geni is the absolute master of storytelling about the destructive beauty of nature and wildlife, and in The Wildlands she had my heart in my throat as she explores the battle between human and mother nature. Jamie Thomas, Women & Children First (Chicago, IL)...Illustrates our present moment through a keen and unflinching look at our past. Thompson s work centers on the Midwest, what some call fly over country, but in her hands, we come to see that it is the center. Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage
Paperback FICTION 1. The Power Naomi Alderman, Back Bay, $16.99 2. Milkman Anna Burns, Graywolf Press, $16 3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99 4. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16 5. Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $15.99 6. Asymmetry Lisa Halliday, S&S, $16 7. Tangerine Christine Mangan, Ecco, $16.99 8. If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin, Vintage, $14.95 9. Less Andrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99 10. Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Algonquin Books, $15.95 11. Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Mariner, $14.99 12. The Perfect Nanny Leila Slimani, Penguin, $16 13. The Au Pair Emma Rous, Berkley, $16 14. The Best American Short Stories 2018 Roxane Gay, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99 15. Celine Peter Heller, Vintage, $16 Mass Market 1. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, $8.50 2. Dune, Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99 3. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 4. Light It Up, Nick Petrie, Putnam, $9.99 5. 1984, George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 6. The Cuban Affair, Nelson DeMille, Pocket, $9.99 7. Burning Bright. Nick Petrie, Putnam, $9.99 8. Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99 9. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $8, 99 10. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99 NONFICTION 1. My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18 2. Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Vintage, $16.95 3. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 4. Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99 5. Code Girls Liza Mundy, Hachette, $16.99 6. White Fragility Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16 7. A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities John J. Moriarty, University of Minnesota Press, $29.95 8. The Lost Art of Reading Nature s Signs Tristan Gooley, Experiment, $16.95 9. This Blessed Earth Ted Genoways, Norton, $15.95 10. Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin, $22 11. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $8.95 12. The View from Flyover Country Sarah Kendzior, Flatiron Books, $12.99 13. The World Almanac and Book of Facts Sarah Janssen (Ed.), World Almanac, $14.99 14. The 5 Love Languages Gary Chapman, Northfield, $15.99 15. White Rage Carol Anderson, Bloomsbury USA, $17 Franzen displays his signature precision and deadpan humor. Vanity Fair
Children s ILLUSTRATED 1. P Is for Pterodactyl Raj Haldar, Chris Carpenter, Maria Beddia (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $17.99 2. Pat the Bunny Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99 3. My Heart Corinna Luyken, Dial Books, $17.99 4. Barnyard Dance! Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95 5. The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99 6. The Wonky Donkey Craig Smith, Katz Cowley (Illus.), Scholastic, $7.99 7. Winter Dance Marion Dane Bauer, Richard Jones (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $8.99 8. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury (Illus.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $8.99 9. There Are No Bears in This Bakery Julia Sarcone-Roach, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99 10. Red and Lulu Matt Tavares, Candlewick, $17.99 YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE 1. Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $18.99 2. The Hate U Give Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99 3. Hidden Figures (Young Readers Edition) Margot Lee Shetterly, Harper, $7.99 4. A Velocity of Being Maria Popova, Claudia Bedrick (Eds.), Enchanted Lion Books, $34.95 5. Louisiana s Way Home Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $16.99 6. The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo, HarperTeen, $17.99 7. What If It s Us Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, HarperTeen, $18.99 8. We Are Displaced Malala Yousafzai, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99 9. Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $12.99 10. Sisters Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99 Children s Series Titles 1. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild, Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown, Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $13.95 3. The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2), Holly Black, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99 4. Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1), Cassandra Clare, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $4.99 5. Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass), Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury YA, $19.99 6. Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass), Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury YA, $11.99 7. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1), Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $5.99 8. The Wild Robot Escapes, Peter Brown, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99 9. I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967, Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic, $4.99 10. Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties, Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99 "There s lots of hugging and happiness in this book that will make readers of all ages smile." --Pioneer Press Hilarious...a laugh on each spread. And readers will cheer on Leopold as he opts to take the high road--and ends up on top. --Publishers Weekly
1 Fiction HARDCOVER 1. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26 2. There There Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95 3. Circe Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27 4. Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99 5. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 6. The Overstory Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95 7. Virgil Wander Leif Enger, Grove Press, $27 8. Kingdom of the Blind Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99 9. My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite, Doubleday, $22.95 10. Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $26 11. An American Marriage Tayari Jones, Algonquin, $26.95 12. The New Iberia Blues James Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99 13. An Anonymous Girl Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, St. Martin s, $27.99 14. Night of Miracles Elizabeth Berg, Random House, $26 15. The Great Alone Kristin Hannah, St. Martin s, $28.99 PAPERBACK 1. The Power Naomi Alderman, Back Bay, $16.99 2. Milkman Anna Burns, Graywolf Press, $16 3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99 4. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16 5. Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $15.99 6. Asymmetry Lisa Halliday, S&S, $16 7. Tangerine Christine Mangan, Ecco, $16.99 8. If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin, Vintage, $14.95 9. Less Andrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99 10. Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Algonquin Books, $15.95 11. Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Mariner, $14.99 12. The Perfect Nanny Leila Slimani, Penguin, $16 13. The Au Pair Emma Rous, Berkley, $16 14. The Best American Short Stories 2018 Roxane Gay, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99 15. Celine Peter Heller, Vintage, $16 The Great Believers kept me up reading late into the night, and I d wake up thinking about Makkai s vibrant, complex, and deeply human characters. This is an immersive, heartbreaking novel I loved it. Maggie Shipstead, author of Astonish Me A Key to Treehouse Living is revelatory, a literary lighthouse that forges new routes of understanding. Every life is uncharted terrain, but Elliot Reed gives us a roadmap so that we might understand in more clearer terms how to transverse our terrifying, wonderful world. Rachel Kaplan, Avid Bookshop
Nonfiction HARDCOVER 1. Becoming Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50 2. Educated Tara Westover, Random House, $28 3. Girl, Wash Your Face Rachel Hollis, Thomas Nelson, $22.99 4. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99 5. The Library Book Susan Orlean, S&S, $28 6. Be Fearless Jean Case, S&S, $25 7. Almost Everything Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20 8. Whose Boat Is This Boat? The Staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, S&S, $14.99 9. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari, Spiegel & Grau, $28 10. These Truths Jill Lepore, Norton, $39.95 11. Heartland Sarah Smarsh, Scribner, $26 12. How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $28 13. Calypso David Sedaris, Little Brown, $28 14. Leadership: In Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $30 15. Gmorning, Gnight! Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22 PAPERBACK 1. My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18 2. Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Vintage, $16.95 3. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 4. Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99 5. Code Girls Liza Mundy, Hachette, $16.99 6. White Fragility Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16 7. A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities John J. Moriarty, University of Minnesota Press, $29.95 8. The Lost Art of Reading Nature s Signs Tristan Gooley, Experiment, $16.95 9. This Blessed Earth Ted Genoways, Norton, $15.95 10. Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin, $22 11. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $8.95 12. The View from Flyover Country Sarah Kendzior, Flatiron Books, $12.99 13. The World Almanac and Book of Facts Sarah Janssen (Ed.), World Almanac, $14.99 14. The 5 Love Languages Gary Chapman, Northfield, $15.99 15. White Rage Carol Anderson, Bloomsbury USA, $17 Mass Market 1. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, $8.50 2. Dune, Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99 3. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 4. Light It Up, Nick Petrie, Putnam, $9.99 5. 1984, George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 6. The Cuban Affair, Nelson DeMille, Pocket, $9.99 7. Burning Bright. Nick Petrie, Putnam, $9.99 8. Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99 9. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine, $8, 99 10. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99 A fantastic essay collection... Blending personal reflection with historical analysis and cultural and literary criticism, these essays are a sharp, illuminating response to the nation s continuing racial conflicts. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post