The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, August 21, 2016. Based on reporting from the 
independent booksellers of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers 
Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit 
IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION 
1. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
2. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
3. The Girls
Emma Cline, Random House, $27, 9780812998603
4. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
5. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947135
6. Before the Fall
Noah Hawley, Grand Central, $26, 9781455561780
7. Dark Matter
Blake Crouch, Crown, $26.99, 9781101904220
8. The Black Widow
Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99, 9780062320223
9. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26, 9781501132933
10. Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95, 9780451493804
11. The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062414212
12. Barkskins
Annie Proulx, Scribner, $32, 9780743288781
13. The Light of Paris
Eleanor Brown, Putnam, $26, 9780399158919
14. I Will Send Rain
Rae Meadows, Holt, $26, 9781627794268
15. Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron, $26.99, 9781250069795
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25, 9780812988406
2. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
3. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Gallery, $28, 9781501139888
4. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781607747307
5. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $24, 9780812993547
6. Tribe
Sebastian Junger, Twelve, $22, 9781455566389
7. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead, $18, 9780399184413
8. White Trash
Nancy Isenberg, Viking, $28, 9780670785971
9. Crisis of Character
Gary J. Byrne, Center Street, $27, 9781455568871
10. But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman, Blue Rider, $26, 9780399184123
11. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805095159
12. American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385536714
13. The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, $32, 9781476733500
14. The Hour of Land
Terry Tempest Williams, Sarah Crichton Books, $27, 9780374280093
15. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book
Diane Muldrow, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307977618
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16, 9781594634024
2. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781476738024
3. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Broadway, $16, 9780553418798
4. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124944
5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781501115073
6. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
7. Purity
Jonathan Franzen, Picador USA, $17, 9781250097101
8. The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende, Atria, $16, 9781501116995
9. The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95, 9781101872000
10. After You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143108863
11. Last Bus to Wisdom
Ivan Doig, Riverhead, $16, 9781101982563
12. In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16, 9781501112331
13. Our Souls at Night
Kent Haruf, Vintage, $15, 9781101911921
14. Circling the Sun
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $16, 9780345534200
15. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759
2. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17, 9780143109396
3. Dead Wake
Erik Larson, Broadway, $17, 9780307408877
4. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
5. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124739
6. Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg, Penguin, $17, 9780143109259
7. You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16, 9780762447695
8. The Emerald Mile
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $17, 9781439159866
9. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16, 9781451697728
10. The Oregon Trail
Rinker Buck, S&S, $16.99, 9781451659177
11. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
12. Night
Elie Wiesel, FSG, $9.95, 9780374500016
13. Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $14.95, 9780307387172
14. Birds of Colorado Field Guide
Stan Tekiela, Adventure, $13.95, 9781885061324
15. Harry Potter Coloring Book
Scholastic, $15.99, 9781338029994
 
MASS MARKET 
1. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
2. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
3. X
Sue Grafton, Putnam, $9.99, 9781101981870
4. The Aeronaut's Windlass
Jim Butcher, Roc, $9.99, 9780451466815
5. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
7. The Shining
Stephen King, Anchor, $8.99, 9780307743657
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781455538966
9. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983
10. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316769488
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $18.99, 9780060254926
3. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007
4. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 
9780547248288
5. Good Night Colorado
Adam Gamble, Bill Mackey, Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190559
6. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
7. The Berenstain Bears Go to School
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, Random House, $6.99, 9780399555893
8. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $17.99, 9780679805274
9. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt, $7.95, 9780805047905
10. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $16.99, 9780803736801
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The BFG
Roald Dahl, Puffin, $7.99, 9781101997697
2. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf, $16.99, 9780375869020
3. The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781484732748
4. Pax
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $16.99, 9780062377012
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316381994
6. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780385754729
7. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Harcourt, $9.99, 9780544340688
8. Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson, Dial, $12.99, 9780803740167
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown, $15.99, 9780316013697
10. Smile
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545132060
 
CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES TITLES 
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One & Two
J.K. Rowling, et al., Arthur A. Levine Books, $29.99, 9781338099133
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $11.99, 9781594749025
3. The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey
Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316383295
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
5. Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $10.99, 9781594747359
6. The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)
Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316201568
7. The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann, Aladdin, $7.99, 9781442407695
8. The Thank You Book (Elephant & Piggie)
Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $9.99, 9781423178286
9. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
10. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $4.99, 9780679824114