The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 17, 2019. 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. The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385541213
2. The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $28, 9780399590597
3. Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $27, 9780812996548
4. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Nan A. Talese, $28.95, 9780385543781
5. The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $28, 9780399562488
6. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062963673
7. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $27, 9781476749297
8. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
9. Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062913463
10. Blue Moon
Lee Child, Delacorte Press, $28.99, 9780399593543
11. The Guardians
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385544184
12. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $24.95, 9780385537070
13. Swede Hollow
Ola Larsmo, University of Minnesota Press, $26.95, 9781517904517
14. The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe, University of Minnesota Press, $34.95, 9781517905682
15. Twisted Twenty-Six
Janet Evanovich, Putnam, $28, 9780399180194
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Little Winter Book of Gnomes
Kirsten Sevig, Countryman Press, $12.95, 9781682684788
2. The Body
Bill Bryson, Doubleday, $30, 9780385539302
3. Catch and Kill
Ronan Farrow, Little Brown, $30, 9780316486637
4. Finding Chika
Mitch Albom, Harper, $24.99, 9780062952394
5. Blowout
Rachel Maddow, Crown, $30, 9780525575474
6. Joy of Cooking: 2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated
Irma S. Rombauer, et al., Scribner, $40, 9781501169717
7. The Witches Are Coming
Lindy West, Hachette Books, $27, 9780316449885
8. Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $30, 9780316478526
9. The Beautiful Ones
Prince, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9780399589652
10. Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse
John Lithgow, Chronicle Prism, $19.95, 9781452182759
11. In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $26, 9781644450031
12. Me
Elton John, Holt, $30, 9781250147608
13. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504
14. Letters from an Astrophysicist
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Norton, $19.95, 9781324003311
15. The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
Alex Messenger, Blackstone Publishing, $25.99, 9781982583330
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
2. Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $17.99, 9780062684738
3. The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250229533
4. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
5. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780735224315
6. Virgil Wander
Leif Enger, Grove Press, $17, 9780802147127
7. Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17, 9780802156983
8. The Best American Short Stories 2019
Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9781328484246
9. There There
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $16, 9780525436140
10. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006
11. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
12. The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $16, 9780735215092
13. Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate, Ballantine, $17, 9780425284704
14. Washington Black
Esi Edugyan, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525563242
15. Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $17, 9780525435761
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Library Book
Susan Orlean, S&S, $16.99, 9781476740195
2. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg, Penguin Books, $10, 9780143133568
3. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
4. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780399573194
5. Healing After Loss
Martha W. Hickman, Morrow, $14.99, 9780380773381
6. Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143130086
7. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
8. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $18, 9780399588198
9. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Adrienne Maree Brown, AK Press, $16, 9781849352604
10. Making Comics
Lynda Barry, Drawn and Quarterly, $22.95, 9781770463691
11. UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
Michele Borba, Touchstone, $16, 9781501110078
12. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2020
Old Farmer's Almanac, $8.95, 9781571988102
13. On Desperate Ground
Hampton Sides, Anchor, $17, 9781101971215
14. The Best American Essays 2019
Rebecca Solnit, Robert Atwan (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9781328465801
15. Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $15, 9781984897695
 
MASS MARKET
1. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
2. Doctor Sleep
Stephen King, Pocket, $10.99, 9781982138868
3. The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316055420
4. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
5. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $9.99, 9780525506348
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316769488
7. Past Tense
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780399593536
8. A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $7.95, 9780679755333
9. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756407919
10. A Dash of Christmas
Samantha Chase, Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99, 9781492655961
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. I Spy Christmas: A Book of Picture Riddles
Jean Marzollo, Walter Wick (Illus.), Cartwheel Books, $14.99, 9781338332582
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. The Crayons' Christmas
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $19.99, 9780525515746
4. Dinosnores
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95, 9781523508136
5. Sulwe
Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534425361
6. Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum
Dr. Seuss, Andrew Joyner (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780399559129
7. Where Is the Green Sheep?
Mem Fox, Judy Horacek, HMH Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 9780152067045
8. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Workman, $6.95, 9781563054426
9. The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373
10. Sisters First
Jenna Bush Hager, Barbara Pierce Bush, Ramona Kaulitzki (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316534789
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Guts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500
2. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
3. The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs
America's Test Kitchen Kids, Sourcebooks Explore, $19.99, 9781492677697
4. White Bird: A Wonder Story
R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $24.99, 9780525645535
5. Sisters
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540605
6. The Wonders of Nature
Ben Hoare, DK Children, $19.99, 9781465485366
7. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $13.99, 9781419740275
8. The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs
America's Test Kitchen Kids, Sourcebooks Explore, $19.99, 9781492670025
9. Everything Awesome About Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Beasts!
Mike Lowery, Orchard Books, $16.99, 9781338359725
10. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $9.95, 9781616207465
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $14.99, 9781419739033
2. Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers)
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $18.99, 9781419737046
3. The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781481497060
4. Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338236590
5. The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $22.99, 9780553510669
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition
J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $47.99, 9780545791427
7. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545581608
8. Legacy (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8)
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $21.99, 9781534427334
9. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9781338236576
10. Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545935210