The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, April 28, 2024. 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. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
2. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251
3. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
6. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302
7. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
8. I Cheerfully Refuse
Leif Enger, Grove Press, $28, 9780802162939
9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
10. The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Doubleday, $29, 9780385550611
11. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $28, 9780385546874
12. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
13. Expiration Dates
Rebecca Serle, Atria, $27, 9781982166823
14. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
15. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $29, 9780593318256
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
3. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
4. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
6. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, Little, Brown and Company, $28, 9780316567534
7. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250325778
8. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976
9. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232
10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
11. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
Kao Kalia Yang, Atria Books, $28.99, 9781982185299
12. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, $32, 9781954118461
13. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House, $32, 9780593448793
15. Secrets of the Octopus
Sy Montgomery, National Geographic, $30, 9781426223723
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
2. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063279032
3. Bride
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $19, 9780593550403
4. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Shannon Chakraborty, Harper Voyager, $19.99, 9780062963512
5. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
6. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan Henry, Atria Books, $17.99, 9781668011843
7. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
8. A Letter to the Luminous Deep
Sylvie Cathrall, Orbit, $18.99, 9780316565530
9. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976
10. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
11. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030
12. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
J.Ryan Stradal, Penguin, $18, 9781984881090
13. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $18, 9780593500156
14. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781639730957
15. Yours Truly
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $16.99, 9781538704394
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
3. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
4. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illus.), Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781639550562
5. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
6. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama, Crown, $19.99, 9780593237489
7. How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
Danny Caine, Microcosm Publishing, $15.95, 9781648411632
8. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
9. Birds of Minnesota Field Guide
Stan Tekiela, Adventure Publications, $14.95, 9781591938972
10. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Simon Winchester, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063142893
11. Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17, 9780593315200
12. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World
Matt Kracht, Chronicle, $15.95, 9781797212272
13. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
14. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S.C. Gwynne, Scribner, $18, 9781416591061
15. Birds of Wisconsin Field Guide
Stan Tekiela, Adventure Publications, $14.95, 9781591939559
 
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
2. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. The Investigator
John Sandford, Putnam, $10.99, 9780593328705
5. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
6. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
7. The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
Henry James, Signet, $6.95, 9780451530677
8. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553293357
9. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345409874
10. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Dragon's First Taco
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178
2. Bluey: Butterflies
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750889
3. Goodnight Loon
Abe Sauer, Nathaniel Davauer (Illus.), University of Minnesota Press, $9.95, 9780816697038
4. The Big Cheese
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780063329508
5. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780060245863
6. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
7. Floof
Heidi McKinnon, Algonquin Young Readers, $15.99, 9781523525867
8. Ready to Soar
Cori Doerrfeld, Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593696729
9. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
10. The Rabbit Listened
Cori Doerrfeld, Dial, $18.99, 9780735229358
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207
2. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
3. Nightbane
Alex Aster, Amulet, $19.99, 9781419760907
4. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
5. A Rover's Story
Jasmine Warga, Balzer + Bray, $9.99, 9780063113930
6. Warrior Girl Unearthed
Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $19.99, 9781250766588
7. Scholastic Year in Sports 2024
James Buckley, Jr., Scholastic, $14.99, 9781339011325
8. Ferris
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536231052
9. Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm
Siobhan McDermott, Delacorte Press, $18.99, 9780593706114
10. Animal Climate Heroes
Alison Pearce Stevens, Jason Ford (Illus.), Godwin Books, $17.99, 9781250847348
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
2. Who Is Taylor Swift? (Who Was/Is...?)
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $6.99, 9780593754221
3. InvestiGators: All Tide Up
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250849892
4. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852397
5. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
6. I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #9)
Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338883046
7. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #4)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $8.99, 9781368051460
8. The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316310314
9. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
10. Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781442472433