The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, March 12, 2023. Based on reporting 
from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association. 
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
3. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
4. Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $28, 9780593490693
5. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $30, 9780385549073
6. I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai, Viking, $28, 9780593490143
7. Storm Watch
C.J. Box, Putnam, $29, 9780593331309
8. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781451648218
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $27.99, 9780063204157
10. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335430991
11. The London Séance Society
Sarah Penner, Park Row, $30, 9780778387114
12. Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes, Harper, $30, 9780063258396
13. The Foxglove King
Hannah Whitten, Orbit, $29, 9780316434997
14. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780399562969
15. A Day of Fallen Night
Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury Publishing, $35, 9781635577921
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
2. Wake Up with Purpose!: What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years
Jean Dolores Schmidt, Harper Select, $28.99, 9781400333516
3. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
Bernie Sanders, John Nichols, Crown, $28, 9780593238714
4. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824
5. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $26, 9780593329993
6. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $30, 9780593133231
7. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9781984822789
8. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown, Random House, $30, 9780399592553
9. Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
Tracy Kidder, Random House, $30, 9781984801432
10. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
11. Profit with Presence: The Twelve Pillars of Mindful Leadership
Eric J. Holsapple, Greenleaf Book Group Press, $29.95, 9798886450101
12. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
Greta Thunberg, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593492307
13. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham, Random House, $40, 9780553393965
14. On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World
Raghavan Iyer, Workman, $30, 9781523511211
15. A Book of Days
Patti Smith, Random House, $28.99, 9780593448540
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17, 9781524798642
2. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
3. Never Never
Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, Canary Street Press, $17.99, 9781335004888
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
5. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
6. The Candy House
Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $17.99, 9781476716770
7. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
8. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173
9. The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray, Berkley, $17, 9780593101544
10. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
11. Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree, Tor, $17.99, 9781250886088
12. The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner, Park Row, $17.99, 9780778311973
13. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
14. How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu, Morrow, $18.99, 9780063072657
15. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501160844
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $20, 9780593230275
3. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
5. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury USA, $19, 9781632861016
6. Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982165314
7. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
8. Hunker: Brief Essays on Human Connection
Michael Perry, Sneezing Cow Publishing, $15.95, 9781734868340
9. The Nineties: A Book
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin, $18, 9780735217966
10. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
11. Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celina Karp Biniaz
William B. Friedricks, Ice Cube Press, $21.95, 9781948509381
12. Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms
Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota Press, $22.95, 9781517914127
13. The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene, Penguin, $26, 9780140280197
14. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780618871711
15. The Library Book
Susan Orlean, Simon & Schuster, $17.99, 9781476740195
 
MASS MARKET
1. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9781250318541
2. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
3. Night Shift
Stephen King, Anchor, $9.99, 9780307743640
4. The Sixth Idea
P.J. Tracy, Putnam, $9.99, 9780451472021
5. Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, Signet, $7.95, 9780451528612
6. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553283686
7. The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318572
8. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440180296
10. Mort
Terry Pratchett, Harper, $9.99, 9780062225719
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Hot Dog
Doug Salati, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593308431
2. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781442450707
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Little Blue Truck's Springtime
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780544938090
5. Find Spot at Easter: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Eric Hill, Warne, $7.99, 9780241558270
6. When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left
Marc Colagiovanni, Peter H. Reynolds (Illus.), Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781338831184
7. Farmhouse
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316528948
8. Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $9.99, 9780394800165
9. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $8.99, 9780399230035
10. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Immortality: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz, Wednesday Books, $19.99, 9781250861016
2. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593533239
3. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593374160
4. Nick and Charlie
Alice Oseman, Scholastic Press, $16.99, 9781338885101
5. The Tryout: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741261
6. Frizzy
Claribel A. Ortega, Rose Bousamra (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250259639
7. Squished: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338568936
8. Besties: Find Their Groove
Kayla Miller, Kristina Luu (Illus.), Jeffrey Canino, Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358561927
9. Legendborn
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $13.99, 9781534441613
10. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780062991324
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #13)
Ann M. Martin, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338616101
2. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419762949
4. I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #5)
Lauren Tarshis, Berat Pekmezci (Illus.), Graphix, $10.99, 9781338766912
5. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9780545942157
6. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
7. Moon Rising: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #6)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338730890
8. Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338680454
9. City of the Dead (City Spies, #4)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665911573
10. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $5.99, 9780679824114