The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, January 17, 2021. 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 Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
2. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
3. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
4. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
5. Outlawed
Anna North, Bloomsbury Publishing, $26, 9781635575422
6. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99, 9780765387561
7. The Liar's Dictionary
Eley Williams, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385546775
8. The Prophets
Robert Jones, Jr., Putnam, $27, 9780593085684
9. Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline, Ballantine, $28.99, 9781524761332
10. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
11. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
12. A Time for Mercy
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545969
13. The Scorpion's Tail
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Grand Central, $29, 9781538747278
14. The Push
Ashley Audrain, Pamela Dorman Books, $26, 9781984881663
15. The Searcher
Tana French, Viking, $27, 9780735224650
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
2. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
3. A Promised Land
Barack Obama, Crown, $45, 9781524763169
4. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9781984856029
5. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $30, 9780593139134
6. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
7. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
8. Wintering
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $24, 9780593189481
9. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
10. Being Ram Dass
Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das, Sounds True, $29.99, 9781683646280
11. Bravey
Alexi Pappas, The Dial Press, $27, 9781984801128
12. Accidentally Wes Anderson
Wally Koval, Voracious, $35, 9780316492737
13. Mediocre
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $28, 9781580059510
14. The Best of Me
David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $30, 9780316628242
15. What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35, 9780307957894
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
2. Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17, 9780802148506
3. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780062963680
4. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
5. Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu, Vintage, $16, 9780307948472
6. Home Body
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486808
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
8. News of the World
Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $16.99, 9780063011953
9. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
10. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263
11. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
12. There There
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $16, 9780525436140
13. The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $18, 9780399590610
14. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006
15. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17, 9781476749303
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
2. Quit Like a Woman
Holly Whitaker, Dial Press, $18, 9781984825070
3. The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $9.99, 9780804190114
5. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
6. The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates, Flatiron Books, $17.99, 9781250257727
7. How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell, Melville House, $17.99, 9781612198552
8. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
9. One Long River of Song
Brian Doyle, Back Bay, $17.99, 9780316492881
10. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
11. A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18, 9780735225312
12. What Unites Us
Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, Algonquin Books, $16.95, 9781616209940
13. The Winter Army
Maurice Isserman, Mariner, $16.99, 9780358414247
14. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
15. Air Mail
Amy Irvine, Pam Houston, Torrey House Press, $15.95, 9781948814386
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
5. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $8.99, 9780062073488
6. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098240
7. Bridgerton: The Duke and I
Julia Quinn, Avon, $9.99, 9780063078697
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $8.99, 9781250318541
10. Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345326492
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780358272441
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. If You Come to Earth
Sophie Blackall, Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781452137797
4. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
5. Pirate Stew
Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell (Illus.), Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780062934574
6. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
7. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
8. Bronco and Friends: A Party to Remember
Tim Tebow, Jane Chapman (Illus.), WaterBrook, $17.99, 9780593232040
9. The Old Truck
Jerome Pumphrey, Jarrett Pumphrey, Norton Young Readers, $17.95, 9781324005193
10. What We'll Build: Plans For Our Together Future
Oliver Jeffers, Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593206751
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Concrete Rose
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062846716
2. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338712766
3. The Ickabog
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $26.99, 9781338732870
4. The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780061992278
5. From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Janae Marks, Katherine Tegen Books, $7.99, 9780062875860
6. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
7. Class Act
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062885500
8. Twins
Varian Johnson, Shannon Wright (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338236132
9. Unplugged
Gordon Korman, Balzer + Bray, $16.99, 9780062798893
10. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. The Dark Secret (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #4)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338344219
2. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419748684
4. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338535624
5. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $5.99, 9780679824114
6. Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins
Lincoln Peirce, Crown Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780593125908
7. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
8. Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess
Nancy Springer, Philomel Books, $7.99, 9780593350539
9. Logan Likes Mary Anne! (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #8)
Ann M. Martin, Gale Galligan (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338304541
10. Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780316273510