The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List, as brought to you 
by IndieBound and GLIBA, for the week ended Sunday, May 5, 2024. Based on 
reporting from the independent booksellers of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers 
Association. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org. 

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
2. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
3. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
4. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302
5. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
7. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
8. Real Americans
Rachel Khong, Knopf, $29, 9780593537251
9. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251
10. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
11. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042
12. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $28, 9780385546874
13. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
14. A Calamity of Souls
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $30, 9781538765029
15. The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Doubleday, $29, 9780385550611
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
2. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
3. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
4. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
5. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
6. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
Stephen Breyer, Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668021538
7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
Barbara McQuade, Seven Stories Press, $35, 9781644213636
10. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
Mary Claire Haver, M.D., Rodale Books, $28, 9780593796252
11. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060
12. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
13. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250325778
14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House, $32, 9780593448793
15. Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Anne Curzan, Crown, $29, 9780593444092
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
2. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
3. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
4. King of Sloth
Ana Huang, Bloom Books, $17.99, 9781728289755
5. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781451648225
6. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
J.Ryan Stradal, Penguin, $18, 9781984881090
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $18, 9780143110439
8. Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Penguin, $18, 9780593490716
9. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781639730957
10. Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433
11. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583
12. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
13. The Trackers
Charles Frazier, Ecco, $19.99, 9780062948090
14. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
15. Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Ballantine, $18, 9781984818409
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
4. What to Expect When You're Expecting: (Updated in 2024)
Heidi Murkoff, Workman, $17.99, 9780761187486
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
6. Birds of Michigan Field Guide
Stan Tekiela, Adventure Publications, $14.95, 9781591939009
7. Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms
Teresa Marrone, Kathy Yerich, Adventure Publications, $16.95, 9781591939603
8. A Book of Days
Patti Smith, Random House, $20, 9780593730386
9. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson, Vintage, $18, 9780375725609
10. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257
11. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Simon Winchester, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063142893
12. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
13. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
14. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace
Michael Scott-Baumann, The Experiment, $16.95, 9781615199501
15. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. Crime and Cherry Pits
Amanda Flower, Poisoned Pen Press, $8.99, 9781728273051
5. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
8. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
9. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $7.95, 9780451530608
10. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905
4. Ready to Soar
Cori Doerrfeld, Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593696729
5. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
6. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
7. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419768774
8. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia Bond (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780060245863
9. Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten
Michelle Knudsen, Kevin Hawkes (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536219111
10. Ooo, Baby Baby!: A Little Book of Love
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316514934
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Powerful: A Powerless Story
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665966306
2. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
3. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207
4. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
5. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
6. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
7. Orris and Timble: The Beginning
Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536222791
8. Ferris
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536231052
9. The Summer of Broken Rules
K.L. Walther, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728210292
10. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452
 
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. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316382007
4. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
5. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
6. Lightfall: The Dark Times
Tim Probert, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063080904
7. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338535624
8. Charlie Thorne and the Royal Society
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665934893
9. Murtagh: The World of Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle)
Christopher Paolini, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593650868
10. Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi, Harper, $15.99, 9780062085504