The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, August 18, 2019. Based on reporting 
from the independent booksellers of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association. 
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
2. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385537070
3. Chances Are . . .
Richard Russo, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947746
4. Inland
Téa Obreht, Random House, $27, 9780812992861
5. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
J.Ryan Stradal, Pamela Dorman Books, $26, 9780399563058
6. Lady in the Lake
Laura Lippman, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062390011
7. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $26, 9780525562023
8. The Bitterroots
C.J. Box, Minotaur, $27.99, 9781250051059
9. The Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385544252
10. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $26, 9781984822178
11. The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $27.99, 9781501188770
12. Circe
Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27, 9780316556347
13. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30, 9780399563249
14. Evvie Drake Starts Over
Linda Holmes, Ballantine, $26, 9780525619246
15. A Dangerous Man
Robert Crais, Putnam, $28, 9780525535683
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504
2. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
3. The Pioneers
David McCullough, S&S, $30, 9781501168680
4. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard, S&S, $35, 9781476775388
5. Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino, Random House, $27, 9780525510543
6. Three Women
Lisa Taddeo, Avid Reader Press/S&S, $27, 9781451642292
7. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138
8. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9781328662057
9. The Source of Self-Regard
Toni Morrison, Knopf, $28.95, 9780525521037
10. Women Rowing North
Mary Pipher, Bloomsbury, $27, 9781632869609
11. A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
Ben Folds, Ballantine, $28, 9781984817273
12. Upheaval
Jared Diamond, Little Brown, $35, 9780316409131
13. Furious Hours
Casey Cep, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947869
14. Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
Art Cullen, Viking, $28, 9780525558873
15. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, $35, 9781476753836
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780735224315
2. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
3. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
4. Beloved
Toni Morrison, Vintage, $16, 9781400033416
5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
6. The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307278449
7. The Witch Elm
Tana French, Penguin, $17, 9780735224643
8. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $17, 9780425284704
9. There There
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $16, 9780525436140
10. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316204262
11. My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Anchor, $14.95, 9780525564201
12. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16, 9780735220690
13. The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $16, 9780735215092
14. An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, Algonquin Books, $16.95, 9781616208684
15. The Alice Network
Kate Quinn, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062654199
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $18, 9780399588198
2. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
3. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307742483
5. How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan, Penguin, $18, 9780735224155
6. They Called Us Enemy
George Takei, et al., Top Shelf Productions, $19.99, 9781603094504
7. Irish Iowa
Timothy Walch, History Press, $21.99, 9781467139700
8. You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16, 9780762447695
9. I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara, Harper Perennial, $17.99, 9780062319791
10. The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre, Broadway Books, $18, 9781101904213
11. Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20, 9780143034759
12. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Kao Kalia Yang, Coffee House Press, $16.95, 9781566894784
13. Lab Girl
Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16, 9781101873724
14. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062316110
15. The Feather Thief
Kirk Wallace Johnson, Penguin, $17, 9781101981634
 
MASS MARKET
1. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
2. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
3. The Reckoning
John Grisham, Dell, $9.99, 9780525620938
4. The Mueller Report
Robert S. Mueller, et al., Melville House, $9.99, 9781612197814
5. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874
6. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple, Little Brown, $7.99, 9780316415859
7. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
8. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
9. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
10. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $9.99, 9780525506348
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!
Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children, $16.99, 9781368046459
2. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95, 9781563054426
3. The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael Lopez (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99, 9780399246531
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. We Don't Eat Our Classmates
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $17.99, 9781368003551
7. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780544568037
8. Peek-A-Bruce
Ryan T Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $7.99, 9781368028578
9. Press Here
Herve Tullet, Chronicle, $8.99, 9781452178592
10. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
2. Restart
Gordon Korman, Scholastic Press, $6.99, 9781338053807
3. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $13.99, 9781419740275
4. Moo
Sharon Creech, HarperCollins, $6.99, 9780062415264
5. The Unofficial Ultimate Harry Potter Spellbook
Media Lab Books, $14.99, 9781948174244
6. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl, Puffin, $7.99, 9780142410318
8. The Hazel Wood
Melissa Albert, Flatiron Books, $10.99, 9781250147936
9. Super Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $14.99, 9781338230895
10. Wilder Girls
Rory Power, Delacorte Press, $18.99, 9780525645580
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES 
1. Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338236590
2. The Poison Jungle (Wings of Fire, Book 13)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic Press, $16.99, 9781338214512
3. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9781338236576
4. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545581608
5. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $9.99, 9780316201568
6. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
7. Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545935173
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
9. Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle, $5.99, 9780811849098
10. Just Jaime (Emmie & Friends)
Terri Libenson, Balzer + Bray, $12.99, 9780062851062