The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, August 21, 2016. Based on reporting 
from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association. 
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HARDCOVER FICTION 
1. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
2. Wintering
Peter Geye, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101946466
3. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26, 9781501132933
4. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947135
5. Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron, $26.99, 9781250069795
6. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
7. Dark Matter
Blake Crouch, Crown, $26.99, 9781101904220
8. Barkskins
Annie Proulx, Scribner, $32, 9780743288781
9. The Girls
Emma Cline, Random House, $27, 9780812998603
10. Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson, Amistad, $22.99, 9780062359988
11. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
12. Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95, 9780451493804
13. I Will Send Rain
Rae Meadows, Holt, $26, 9781627794268
14. Sweetbitter
Stephanie Danler, Knopf, $25, 9781101875940
15. The Excellent Lombards
Jane Hamilton, Grand Central, $26, 9781455564224
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Gallery, $28, 9781501139888
2. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
3. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, $24, 9780812993547
4. White Trash
Nancy Isenberg, Viking, $28, 9780670785971
5. When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25, 9780812988406
6. But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman, Blue Rider, $26, 9780399184123
7. Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary
Dick Morris, Eileen McGann, Humanix, $24.99, 9781630060589
8. American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385536714
9. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805095159
10. Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter, Grand Central, $45, 9781455539741
11. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Blair Braverman, Ecco, $25.99, 9780062311566
12. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $25, 9781501126345
13. Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, Dey Street, $19.99, 9780062415837
14. Becoming Wise
Krista Tippett, Penguin Press, $28, 9781594206801
15. Dear County Agent Guy: Calf Pulling, Husband Training, and Other Curious Dispatches from a Midwestern Dairy Farmer
Jerry Nelson, Workman, $14.95, 9780761187271
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781476738024
2. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16, 9781594634024
3. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781501115073
4. After You
Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16, 9780143108863
5. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Broadway, $16, 9780553418798
6. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124944
7. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
8. In a Dark, Dark Wood
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $16, 9781501112331
9. Kitchens of the Great Midwest
J.Ryan Stradal, Penguin, $16, 9780143109419
10. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Katarina Bivald, Sourcebooks Landmark, $16.99, 9781492623441
11. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
12. Our Souls at Night
Kent Haruf, Vintage, $15, 9781101911921
13. The Heart Goes Last
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16, 9781101912362
14. The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
15. Circling the Sun
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $16, 9780345534200
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
2. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124739
3. The Wright Brothers
David McCullough, S&S, $17, 9781476728759
4. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759
5. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $19.95, 9781595586438
6. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761
7. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812984965
8. Chill the F*ck Out: A Swear Word Coloring Book
Hannah Caner, St. Martin's Griffin, $9.99, 9781250116406
9. Yuge!
G.B. Trudeau, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449481339
10. The Latehomecomer
Kao Kalia Yang, Coffee House Press, $16.95, 9781566892087
11. How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thomas C. Foster, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062301673
12. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
13. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17, 9780143109396
14. Dead Wake
Erik Larson, Broadway, $17, 9780307408877
15. Harry Potter Coloring Book
Scholastic, $15.99, 9781338029994
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
3. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781455538966
5. Rogue Lawyer
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393484
6. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
9. The Inferno
Dante Alighieri, Signet Classics, $5.95, 9780451531391
10. The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345348104
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. The Night Before Kindergarten
Natasha Wing, Julie Durrell (Illus.), Grosset & Dunlap, $4.99, 9780448425009
3. Mother Bruce
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $17.99, 9781484730881
4. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 9780547248288
5. Peek-A-Who?
Nina Laden, Chronicle, $6.95, 9780811826020
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $18.99, 9780060254926
7. Baby Babble
Kate Merritt, Workman, $5.95, 9780761168805
8. Kindergarten, Here I Come!
D.J. Steinberg, Grosset & Dunlap, $3.99, 9780448456249
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
10. Beach Baby
Kate Merritt, Workman, $5.95, 9780761187325
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys, Philomel, $18.99, 9780399160301
2. Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson, Dial, $12.99, 9780803740167
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. Firefly Hollow
Alison McGhee, Christopher Denise (Illus.), Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $8.99, 9781442423374
6. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
Chris Grabenstein, Random House, $16.99, 9780553510409
7. The Witches
Roald Dahl, Puffin, $7.99, 9780142410110
8. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews, Amulet, $9.95, 9781419719462
9. The BFG
Roald Dahl, Puffin, $7.99, 9781101997697
10. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780385754729
 
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. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
4. The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey
Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $19.99, 9780316383295
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780439136365
6. Hogwarts Classics, 2 Volume Set (Harry Potter)
J.K. Rowling, Arthur A. Levine Books, $19.99, 9781338097672
7. The Thank You Book (Elephant & Piggie)
Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $9.99, 9781423178286
8. The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey, Speak, $10.99, 9780147519085
9. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780439064873