Indie Midwest Bestsellers Indie Bestsellers Hardcover FICTION 1. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95 2. The Nightingale Kristin Hannah, St. Martin s, $27.99 3. History of Wolves Emily Fridlund, Atlantic Monthly Press, $25 4. The Girl Before J.P. Delaney, Ballantine, $27 5. Commonwealth Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99 6. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 7. Small Great Things Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99 8. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27 9. 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster, Holt, $32.50 10. News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $22.99 11. Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95 12. Difficult Women Roxane Gay, Grove Press, $25 13. Rather Be the Devil Ian Rankin, Little Brown, $27 14. LaRose Louise Erdrich, Harper, $27.99 15. Swing Time Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $27 NONFICTION 1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99 2. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95 3. The Book of Joy The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26 4. The Blood of Emmett Till Timothy B. Tyson, S&S, $27 5. Tears We Cannot Stop Michael Eric Dyson, St. Martin s, $24.99 6. Born a Crime Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $28 7. Killing the Rising Sun Bill O Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30 8. Strangers in Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild, The New Press, $27.95 9. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $25 10. Thank You for Being Late Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $28 11. When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25 12. The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living Meik Wiking, Morrow, $19.99 13. The Undoing Project Michael Lewis, Norton, $28.95 14. Books for Living Will Schwalbe, Knopf, $25.95 15. Insane Clown President Matt Taibbi, Victor Juhasz (Illus.), Spiegel & Grau, $26 So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides! Aimee Bender Goldbarth belongs by rights to the company of America s premiere literary essayists, somewhere between Annie Dillard and David Foster Wallace. --Publishers Weekly
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Fiction HARDCOVER 1. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95 2. The Nightingale Kristin Hannah, St. Martin s, $27.99 3. History of Wolves Emily Fridlund, Atlantic Monthly Press, $25 4. The Girl Before J.P. Delaney, Ballantine, $27 5. Commonwealth Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99 6. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 7. Small Great Things Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $28.99 8. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27 9. 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster, Holt, $32.50 10. News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $22.99 11. Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95 12. Difficult Women Roxane Gay, Grove Press, $25 13. Rather Be the Devil Ian Rankin, Little Brown, $27 14. LaRose Louise Erdrich, Harper, $27.99 15. Swing Time Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $27 PAPERBACK 1. A Man Called Ove 2. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She s Sorry 3. A Dog s Purpose W. Bruce Cameron, Forge, $14.99 4. Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf, Vintage, $15 5. The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95 6. The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George, Broadway, $16 7. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Phaedra Patrick, Mira, $15.99 8. Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99 9. The Sellout Paul Beatty, Picador USA, $16 10. In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16 11. The Life We Bury Allen Eskens, Seventh Street Books, $15.95 12. Mothering Sunday Graham Swift, Vintage, $15 13. The Bookshop on the Corner Jenny Colgan, Morrow, $14.99 14. The Muralist B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $15.95, 15. Georgia Dawn Tripp, Random House, $17 So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides! Aimee Bender A twist-filled psychological suspense novel exploring the nature of good, evil, duplicity, obsession, love and the power of past decisions. --Huffington Post
Nonfiction Mass Market HARDCOVER 1. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99 2. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95 3. The Book of Joy The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26 4. The Blood of Emmett Till Timothy B. Tyson, S&S, $27 5. Tears We Cannot Stop Michael Eric Dyson, St. Martin s, $24.99 6. Born a Crime Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $28 7. Killing the Rising Sun Bill O Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30 8. Strangers in Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild, The New Press, $27.95 9. Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $25 10. Thank You for Being Late Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $28 11. When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25 12. The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living Meik Wiking, Morrow, $19.99 13. The Undoing Project Michael Lewis, Norton, $28.95 14. Books for Living Will Schwalbe, Knopf, $25.95 15. Insane Clown President Matt Taibbi, Victor Juhasz (Illus.), Spiegel & Grau, $26 1. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 2. It Can t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $9.99 3. American Gods Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99 4. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99 5. Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 6. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck, Penguin, $11 7. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Grand Central, $9.99 8. Murder Wears White Stephanie Blackmoore, Kensington, $7.99 9. Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.99 10. This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald, Signet, $6.95 PAPERBACK 1. Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly, Morrow, $15.99 2. The Trump Survival Guide Gene Stone, Dey Street, $9.99 3. Hope in the Dark Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $15.99 4. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95 5. What We Do Now Dennis Johnson, Valerie Merians (Eds.), Melville House, $15.99 6. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20 7. Dark Money Jane Mayer, Anchor, $17 8. March: Book One John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Top Shelf Productions, $14.95 9. You Are a Badass Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16 10. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17 11. Quicksand Henning Mankell, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525432159 12. The Constitution of the United States, with Index, and the Declaration of Independence National Center for Constitutional Studies, $1.50 13. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota Sun Yung Shin (Ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, $18.95 14. Rosemary Kate Clifford Larson, Mariner, $15.95 15. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95 Goldbarth belongs by rights to the company of America s premiere literary essayists, somewhere between Annie Dillard and David Foster Wallace. --Publishers Weekly