The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, July 25, 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 Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
2. Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $28, 9781524798659
3. The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780593329825
4. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $28.99, 9780593135204
5. The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray, Berkley, $27, 9780593101537
6. The Maidens
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $27.99, 9781250304452
7. The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $28.99, 9781250178602
8. Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $28, 9780593318171
9. The Cellist
Daniel Silva, Harper, $28.99, 9780062834867
10. The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $26, 9780593201237
11. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab, Tor, $26.99, 9780765387561
12. Falling
T.J. Newman, Avid Reader Press/S&S, $28, 9781982177881
13. The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99, 9780593465271
14. The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz, Celadon Books, $28, 9781250790767
15. The Book of Accidents
Chuck Wendig, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780399182136
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593298947
2. This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $28, 9780593296905
3. The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green, Dutton, $28, 9780525555216
4. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
5. Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743
6. Forget the Alamo
Bryan Burrough, et al., Penguin Press, $32, 9781984880093
7. American Marxism
Mark R. Levin, Threshold Editions, $28, 9781501135972
8. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $30, 9780593139134
9. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
10. Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors
Amber Share, Plume, $22, 9780593185544
11. The Comfort Book
Matt Haig, Penguin Life, $22, 9780143136668
12. Think Again
Adam Grant, Viking, $28, 9781984878106
13. World Travel
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $35, 9780062802798
14. Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard, Knopf, $28.95, 9780525656098
15. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
2. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
3. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18, 9780735219106
4. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
5. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $16.95, 9781984898876
6. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $17, 9780525620808
7. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
8. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160844
9. The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780062671196
10. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
11. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
12. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
13. One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250244499
14. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $17, 9780525562047
15. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18, 9781635575569
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
2. The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
3. Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $18, 9780525510321
4. Why Fish Don't Exist
Lulu Miller, S&S, $17, 9781501160349
5. Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall, Penguin, $16, 9780525560562
6. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
7. The Body
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $17, 9780804172721
8. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson (Eds.), One World, $18, 9780593237083
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
10. Empire of the Summer Moon
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $18, 9781416591061
11. Wildflowers of Colorado Field Guide
Don Mammoser, Adventure Publications, $16.95, 9781591931614
12. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
13. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
14. The Bird Way
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $18, 9780735223035
15. Classic Krakauer
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $15, 9781984897695
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345514400
6. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
7. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
8. Open Season
C.J. Box, Putnam, $9.99, 9780399576607
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
10. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
2. Good Night Colorado
Adam Gamble, Bill Mackey, Anne Rosen (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190559
3. We Are Water Protectors
Carole Lindstrom, Michaela Goade (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $17.99, 9781250203557
4. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
5. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
6. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $7.95, 9781563054426
7. The Rock from the Sky
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536215625
8. If You Come to Earth
Sophie Blackall, Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781452137797
9. The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), Putnam, $17.99, 9781984812698
10. Jungle Night
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $7.95, 9781523513604
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780061992278
2. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419756979
3. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $7.99, 9780062895943
4. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
5. One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $17.99, 9781524714680
6. Tokyo Ever After
Emiko Jean, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250766601
7. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338712766
8. Six Crimson Cranes
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593300916
9. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062457806
10. We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
2. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
3. Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $12.99, 9781250777881
4. Goldilocks: Wanted Dead or Alive (Land of Stories Graphic Novel)
Chris Colfer, Jon Proctor (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316355957
5. The Bad Guys in Cut to the Chase (The Bad Guys #13)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $6.99, 9781338329520
6. The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316003957
7. Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338680454
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
9. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, Book One)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545349239
10. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House BYR, $5.99, 9780679824114