The Mountains and Plains Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
MPIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 20, 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 
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27, 9781635575637
2. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
3. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
4. The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett, Viking, $36, 9780525954989
5. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239
6. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
7. Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184
8. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452
9. Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316498937
10. The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26, 9781609455910
11. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062868930
12. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
13. American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99, 9781250209764
14. Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar, Little, Brown, $28, 9780316496421
15. The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521143
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Rage
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781982131739
2. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
3. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
4. Disloyal
Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699
5. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
6. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
7. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
8. Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28, 9781982141462
9. Vesper Flights
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27, 9780802128812
10. Compromised
Peter Strzok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780358237068
11. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547
12. One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
Matthew Yglesias, Portfolio, $28, 9780593190210
13. Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, $30, 9781644450215
14. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9781627797047
15. What It's Like to Be a Bird
David Allen Sibley, Knopf, $35, 9780307957894
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
2. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
3. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17, 9781476749303
4. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
5. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
6. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17, 9781984822185
7. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
8. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780525541349
9. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229296
10. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
11. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
12. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166
13. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
14. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson, Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99, 9781492671527
15. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Perennial, $15.99, 9780060935467
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
2. Intimations
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612
3. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
4. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
5. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
6. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
7. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
8. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
9. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
10. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254
11. The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
12. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17, 9780593133934
13. The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536
14. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18, 9780525560739
15. Know My Name
Chanel Miller, Penguin, $18, 9780735223721
 
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Perigee, $11, 9780399501487
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
4. Mistborn
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $8.99, 9781250318541
5. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874
6. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
7. Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $12, 9780140177398
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345514400
9. All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque, Ballantine, $6.99, 9780449213940
10. The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $10.99, 9780451166890
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
2. I Am Every Good Thing
Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780525518778
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Debbie Levy, Elizabeth Baddeley (Illus.), Simon & Schuster (BYR), $18.99, 9781481465595
5. If You Come to Earth
Sophie Blackall, Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781452137797
6. Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Board Book
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
7. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $16.99, 9780803736801
8. The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99, 9780399246531
9. All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Beach Lane, $18.99, 9781416985808
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
2. Legendborn
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $18.99, 9781534441606
3. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
4. Smile
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545132060
5. Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062996480
6. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
7. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781368052405
8. Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez, Algonquin Young Readers, $17.95, 9781616209919
9. The Mysteries of the Universe
Will Gater, DK Children, $19.99, 9781465499332
10. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338535624
2. Midnight Sun (Twilight)
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $27.99, 9780316707046
3. The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road
Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781984835345
4. The Magic Misfits: The Fourth Suit
Neil Patrick Harris, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780316391955
5. Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (Who Was/Is…?)
Patricia Brennan Demuth, Jake Murray (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $5.99, 9781524793531
6. The Princess in Black and the Bathtime Battle
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9781536215755
7. I Survived The California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20)
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic, $5.99, 9781338317442
8. Logan Likes Mary Anne! (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #8)
Ann M. Martin, Gale Galligan (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338304541
9. Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles
Marissa Meyer, Square Fish, $10.99, 9781250768889
10. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $27.99, 9781338635171