The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 28, 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. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon, Delacorte Press, $36, 9781101885680
2. The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, Viking, $30, 9780735222359
3. The Sentence
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $28.99, 9780062671127
4. Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $30, 9781982168438
5. State of Terror
Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781982173678
6. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474
7. The Judge's List
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385546027
8. Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385545136
9. Lightning Strike
William Kent Krueger, Atria Books, $27, 9781982128685
10. Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney, FSG, $28, 9780374602604
11. The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99, 9780593465271
12. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $28.99, 9780593135204
13. Oh William!
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $27, 9780812989434
14. Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $30, 9780374181178
15. Our Country Friends
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9781984855121
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. These Precious Days: Essays
Ann Patchett, Harper, $26.99, 9780063092785
2. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, One World, $38, 9780593230572
3. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
4. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063076099
5. The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Paul McCartney, Liveright, $100, 9781631492563
6. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow, FSG, $35, 9780374157357
7. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Nick Offerman, Dutton, $28, 9781101984697
8. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $32, 9780316558792
9. The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch
Charlie Berens, William Morrow, $26.99, 9780063074958
10. Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
Jonathan Karl, Dutton, $28, 9780593186329
11. Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982168018
12. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, Gail Hudson, Celadon Books, $28, 9781250784094
13. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach, Norton, $26.95, 9781324001935
14. Peril
Bob Woodward, Robert Costa, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982182915
15. Renegades: Born in the USA
Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Crown, $50, 9780593236314
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780062671196
2. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780593438374
3. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
5. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
6. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17, 9781984880987
7. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160844
8. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
9. The Searcher
Tana French, Penguin, $18, 9780735224674
10. The Anomaly: A Novel
Hervé Le Tellier, Other Press, $16.99, 9781635421699
11. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $16.95, 9781984898876
12. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
13. The Christmas Bookshop
Jenny Colgan, Morrow, $16.99, 9780063141674
14. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $18, 9780735219106
15. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $18, 9781501173219
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
2. The Best of Me
David Sedaris, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316242400
3. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
4. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $18, 9780525510321
5. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
6. Healing After Loss
Martha W. Hickman, Morrow, $15.99, 9780380773381
7. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love: Recipes to Unlock the Secrets of Your Pantry, Fridge, and Freezer
Noor Murad, Yotam Ottolenghi, Clarkson Potter, $32, 9780593234365
8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
9. How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $18, 9780735224155
10. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
11. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Lucy Adlington, Harper, $17.99, 9780063030930
12. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807057834
13. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Thomas E. Ricks, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062997463
14. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2022
Old Farmer's Almanac, $9.95, 9781571988935
15. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson, Anchor, $17, 9780804172721
 
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
2. The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan, Tor, $10.99, 9781250251466
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $7.99, 9780553293357
5. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $9.99, 9780441478125
6. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
7. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino, Harper Perennial, $9.99, 9780063112520
8. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
9. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
10. The Stand
Stephen King, Anchor, $10.99, 9780593313886
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Jan Brett's The Nutcracker
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593109823
2. The Littlest Yak
Lu Fraser, Kate Hindley (Illus.), Peachtree Publishing Company, $16.99, 9781682632826
3. Christmas Mouse: Finger Puppet Book
Emily Dove (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797205694
4. Woodland Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $7.95, 9781523514687
5. Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
Amanda Gorman, Loren Long (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593203224
6. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson, Nikkolas Smith (Illus.), Kokila, $18.99, 9780593307359
7. Aaron Slater, Illustrator
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $18.99, 9781419753961
8. Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Abrams, $18.99, 9781419750915
9. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
10. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Christmas Pig
J.K. Rowling, Jim Field (Illus.), Scholastic, $24.99, 9781338790238
2. The Beatryce Prophecy
Kate DiCamillo, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536213614
3. Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt and Co., $18.99, 9781250766564
4. Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781665902168
5. Daughter of the Deep
Rick Riordan, Disney-Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368077927
6. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
7. Gilded
Marissa Meyer, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250618849
8. Pony
R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780553508116
9. They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062457806
10. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338712766
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749155
2. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
3. The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316003957
4. Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338680454
5. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
6. An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! Volume 4
Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children, $16.99, 9781368071123
7. The Bad Guys in They're Bee-Hind You! (The Bad Guys, #14)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $6.99, 9781338329544
8. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
9. Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.), Candlewick, $5.99, 9780763645045
10. Dog Man: Fetch-22
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338323214