The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, March 18, 2018. Based on reporting
from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27, 9780670026197
2. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27, 9780735224292
3. The Power
Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26, 9780316547611
4. The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $28.99, 9780312577230
5. An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, Algonquin, $26.95, 9781616208776
6. The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062678416
7. Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $26, 9781501126062
8. Chicago
David Mamet, Custom House, $26.99, 9780062797193
9. The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $26, 9780735213180
10. The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542418
11. Sulfur Springs
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $26, 9781501147340
12. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $26, 9780425284681
13. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30, 9780399563249
14. Sunburn
Laura Lippman, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062389923
15. My Absolute Darling
Gabriel Tallent, Riverhead, $27, 9780735211179
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
Michael Isikoff, David Corn, Twelve, $30, 9781538728758
2. I've Been Thinking…
Maria Shriver, Pamela Dorman Books, $20, 9780525522607
3. Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504
4. Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza, Little Brown, $50, 9780316512589
5. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Norton, $18.95, 9780393609394
6. Extraordinary Influence
Tim Irwin, Wiley, $25, 9781119464426
7. I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara, Harper, $27.99, 9780062319784
8. What Are We Doing Here?
Marilynne Robinson, FSG, $27, 9780374282219
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385534246
10. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck
Mark Manson, HarperOne, $24.99, 9780062457714
11. Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker, Viking, $35, 9780525427575
12. The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95, 9781101947319
13. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
Francisco Cantú, Riverhead, $26, 9780735217713
14. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
15. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Kate Bowler, Random House, $26, 9780399592065
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Exit West
Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $16, 9780735212206
2. Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Random House, $17, 9780812985405
3. Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455563920
4. Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman, Norton, $15.95, 9780393356182
5. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $16.95, 9780345804327
6. Beartown
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160776
7. We Were the Lucky Ones
Georgia Hunter, Penguin, $16, 9780399563096
8. Call Me by Your Name
Andre Aciman, Picador USA, $17, 9781250169440
9. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
10. The Women in the Castle
Jessica Shattuck, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062563675
11. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781476738024
12. The Shadow Land
Elizabeth Kostova, Ballantine Books, $18, 9780345527875
13. Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer, MCD/FSG, $14, 9780374537159
14. Authority
Jeff VanderMeer, FSG, $15, 9780374104108
15. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250080400
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16, 9780762447695
2. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
HanifAbdurraqib, Two Dollar Radio, $15.99, 9781937512651
3. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $7.99, 9780804190114
4. The Stranger in the Woods
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $16, 9781101911532
5. The Radium Girls
Kate Moore, Sourcebooks, $17.99, 9781492650959
6. Rand McNally 2018 Road Atlas
Rand McNally, $14.95, 9780528017315
7. The Gatekeepers
Chris Whipple, Broadway, $17, 9780804138260
8. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101970263
9. Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, Quirk Books, $16.99, 9781683690252
10. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
Sun Yung Shin (Ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, $18.95, 9781681340029
11. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759
12. The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan, Vintage, $20, 9781101912379
13. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor, Berrett-Koehler, $17.95, 9781626569768
14. Evicted
Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17, 9780553447453
15. This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Morgan Jerkins, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062666154
MASS MARKET
1. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $9.99, 9780804190145
2. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983
3. The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin, Voyager, $7.99, 9780061054884
4. The Shining
Stephen King, Anchor, $8.99, 9780307743657
5. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756407919
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
7. No Middle Name
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780399593598
8. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874
9. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Little Blue Truck's Springtime
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780544938090
2. She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History
Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780525516996
3. When Spring Comes
Kevin Henkes, Laura Dronzek (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $7.99, 9780062741660
4. Baby Peekaboo
Kate Merritt, Workman, $5.95, 9780761181811
5. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $16.99, 9780803736801
8. Islandborn
JunotDíaz, Leo Espinosa (Illus.), Dial, $17.99, 9780735229860
9. I've Loved You Since Forever
HodaKotb, Suzie Mason (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062841742
10. Moo, Baa, La LaLa!
Sandra Boynton, S&S, $5.99, 9780671449018
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Farrar Straus Giroux, $8.99, 9781250153272
2. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $17.99, 9780062498533
3. Hello, Universe
Erin Entrada Kelly, Isabel Roxas (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $16.99, 9780062414151
4. Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $18.99, 9781250170972
5. A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $6.99, 9780312368548
6. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli, Balzer + Bray, $10.99, 9780062792167
7. Turtles All the Way Down
John Green, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780525555360
8. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9781524720193
9. Wishtree
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250043221
10. DK Children's Encyclopedia
DK Publishing, $24.99, 9781465462077
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man and Cat Kid
DavPilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545935180
2. Time Jumpers (Five Kingdoms, #5)
Brandon Mull, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781442497122
3. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316382045
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9781419725456
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
6. Dog Man
DavPilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545581608
7. Ghost (Track, Book 1)
Jason Reynolds, Atheneum, $6.99, 9781481450164
8. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
9. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316381994
10. Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, Book 3)
Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780553499193