The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, January 17, 2021. Based on 
reporting from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers 
Association. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
2. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
3. The Prophets
Robert Jones, Jr., Putnam, $27, 9780593085684
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99, 9780765387561
5. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
6. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
7. Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780358380887
8. Deacon King Kong
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735216723
9. Outlawed
Anna North, Bloomsbury Publishing, $26, 9781635575422
10. The Children's Blizzard
Melanie Benjamin, Delacorte Press, $28, 9780399182280
11. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
12. A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet, Norton, $25.95, 9781324005032
13. Perestroika in Paris
Jane Smiley, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525520351
14. The Cold Millions
Jess Walter, Harper, $28.99, 9780062868084
15. The Liar's Dictionary
Eley Williams, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385546775
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
2. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9781984856029
3. A Promised Land
Barack Obama, Crown, $45, 9781524763169
4. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
6. Wintering
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $24, 9780593189481
7. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Grand Central, $28, 9781538719367
8. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
9. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
10. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, $35, 9781476753836
11. Evil Geniuses
Kurt Andersen, Random House, $30, 9781984801340
12. Dessert Person
Claire Saffitz, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9781984826961
13. Mediocre
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $28, 9781580059510
14. Saving Freedom
Joe Scarborough, Harper, $29.99, 9780062950499
15. A Wealth of Pigeons
Steve Martin, Harry Bliss (Illus.), Celadon Books, $28, 9781250262899
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
2. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780062963680
3. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
4. The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $18, 9780399590610
5. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
6. Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu, Vintage, $16, 9780307948472
7. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
8. Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17, 9780802148506
9. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
10. The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis, Vintage, $16.95, 9780593314654
11. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17, 9781476749303
12. Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732199
13. Bridgerton: The Duke and I
Julia Quinn, Avon, $16.99, 9780063078901
14. When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650
15. News of the World
Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $16.99, 9780063011953
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
2. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $9.99, 9780804190114
3. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
4. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
5. My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470
6. The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker, Riverhead Books, $17, 9781594634932
7. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18, 9780525560739
8. The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
9. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
10. Quit Like a Woman
Holly Whitaker, Dial Press, $18, 9781984825070
11. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
12. Evicted
Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $18, 9780553447453
13. Somewhere in the Unknown World
Kao Kalia Yang, Metropolitan Books, $17.99, 9781250296856
14. Burnout
Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski, Ballantine, $17, 9781984818324
15. In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450383
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
3. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
4. Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $7.99, 9780553293371
5. Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $7.99, 9780553293364
6. Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $12, 9780140177398
7. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $7.99, 9781250068736
8. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $9.99, 9780441478125
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
10. Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.99, 9780345806543
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Joanna Ho, Dung Ho (Illus.), Harper, $17.99, 9780062915627
2. The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illus.), Versify, $17.99, 9781328780966
3. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
4. The Mitten
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399231094
5. And the People Stayed Home
Kitty O'Meara, Tra Publishing, $18.99, 9781734761788
6. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780358272441
7. Ada Twist, Scientist
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $17.95, 9781419721373
8. Where Is the Green Sheep?
Mem Fox, Judy Horacek, HMH Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 9780152067045
9. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
10. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
 
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. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194
4. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
5. The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
Frederick Joseph, Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536217018
6. The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs
America's Test Kitchen Kids, Sourcebooks Explore, $19.99, 9781492677697
7. Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
Gary Paulsen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99, 9780374314156
8. Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas, Swoon Reads, $17.99, 9781250250469
9. A Whale of the Wild
Rosanne Parry, Lindsay Moore (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $17.99, 9780062995926
10. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316382007
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780439064873
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419748684
5. The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, Book Five)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781484746455
6. The Princess in Black and the Giant Problem
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $14.99, 9781536202229
7. Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha, #1)
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $18.99, 9781250170972
8. The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763687588
9. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury, $11.99, 9781619630345
10. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960