The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, July 5, 2020. Based on reporting from the 
independent booksellers of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers 
Association and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit 
IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION 
1. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
2. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
3. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
4. American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99, 9781250209764
5. Sex and Vanity
Kevin Kwan, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385546270
6. Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin Press, $27, 9781984879356
7. Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26, 9780525541905
8. The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd, Viking, $28, 9780525429760
9. The Glass Hotel
Emily St.John Mandel, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521143
10. A Burning
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525658696
11. Friends and Strangers
J. Courtney Sullivan, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525520597
12. The Empire of Gold
S.A. Chakraborty, Harper Voyager, $28.99, 9780062678164
13. Valentine
Elizabeth Wetmore, Harper, $26.99, 9780062913265
14. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062963673
15. Devolution
Max Brooks, Del Rey, $28, 9781984826787
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
2. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
3. Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad, Sourcebooks, $25.99, 9781728209807
4. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547
5. The Room Where It Happened
John Bolton, S&S, $32.50, 9781982148034
6. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
7. I'm Still Here
Austin Channing Brown, Convergent Books, $25, 9781524760854
8. Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall, Viking, $26, 9780525560548
9. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
10. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504
11. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude, Crown, $27, 9780525575320
12. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
13. Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, $30, 9780316478526
14. Our Time Is Now
Stacey Abrams, Holt, $27.99, 9781250257703
15. Hell and Other Destinations
Madeleine Albright, Harper, $29.99, 9780062802255
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
2. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
3. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17, 9781984822185
4. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
5. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17, 9781476749303
6. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166
7. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
8. City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $17, 9781594634741
9. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
10. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri, Ballantine, $17, 9780593128176
11. The River
Peter Heller, Vintage, $16, 9780525563532
12. The Tradition
Jericho Brown, Copper Canyon Press, $17, 9781556594861
13. Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips, Vintage, $16.95, 9780525436225
14. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
15. Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage, $16.95, 9780804172448
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
2. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
3. Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, $19.99, 9781568585987
4. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
5. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
6. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17, 9780593133934
7. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470
8. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
9. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Basic Books, $18.99, 9780465060689
10. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
11. The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale, Verso, $17.95, 9781784782924
12. The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536
13. Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $16.95, 9780307279286
14. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
15. The Yellow House: A Memoir
Sarah M. Broom, Grove Press, $17, 9780802149039
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345514400
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688
5. The Shining
Stephen King, Anchor, $8.99, 9780307743657
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
8. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756407919
9. The Stand
Stephen King, Anchor, $9.99, 9780307743688
10. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $5.99, 9780553208849
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Antiracist Baby Board Book
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110416
2. The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99, 9780399246531
3. Sulwe
Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison (Illus.), Simon & Schuster, $17.99, 9781534425361
4. All Are Welcome
Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780525579649
5. We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
Traci Sorell, Frane Lessac (Illus.), Charlesbridge, $17.99, 9781580897723
6. The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illus.), Versify, $17.99, 9781328780966
7. Let's Talk About Race
Julius Lester, Karen Barbour (Illus.), HarperCollins, $7.99, 9780064462266
8. I Am Enough
Grace Byers, Keturah A. Bobo (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062667120
9. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
10. You Matter
Christian Robinson, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781534421691
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
2. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
3. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
4. This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand (Illus.), Frances Lincoln Children's Books, $14.99, 9780711245211
5. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194
6. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Drew Willis (Illus.), Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781481486293
7. You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781338503265
8. Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780316493802
9. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
Roseanne A. Brown, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062891495
10. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $13.99, 9781419740275
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $27.99, 9781338635171
2. The Last Kids on Earth: June's Wild Flight
Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780593117187
3. Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.), Candlewick, $5.99, 9780763645045
4. What About Worms!? (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)
Ryan T. Higgins, Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children, $9.99, 9781368045735
5. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
6. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $5.99, 9780679824114
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419739033
8. Ghost (Track, Book 1)
Jason Reynolds, Atheneum, $7.99, 9781481450164
9. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
10. This Is What I Know About Art (Pocket Change Collective)
Kimberly Drew, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $8.99, 9780593095188