The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, September 20, 2020. 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. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
2. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239
3. Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316498937
4. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27, 9781635575637
5. Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184
6. The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett, Viking, $36, 9780525954989
7. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
8. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452
9. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini, Tor, $29.99, 9781250762849
10. The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26, 9781609455910
11. Monogamy
Sue Miller, Harper, $28.99, 9780062969651
12. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
13. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
14. Total Power
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, $28.99, 9781501190650
15. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062868930
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Rage
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781982131739
2. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
3. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
4. Compromised
Peter Strzok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780358237068
5. Disloyal
Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699
6. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
7. Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28, 9781982141462
8. Just Us
Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, $30, 9781644450215
9. Melania and Me
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982151249
10. His Truth Is Marching On
Jon Meacham, Random House, $30, 9781984855022
11. Vesper Flights
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27, 9780802128812
12. Hoax
Brian Stelter, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28, 9781982142445
13. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
14. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547
15. Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla, Clarkson Potter, $28, 9781524759216
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17, 9781476749303
2. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
3. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson, Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99, 9781492671527
4. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
5. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
7. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
8. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $17.99, 9780312541538
9. When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650
10. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166
11. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780525541349
12. Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson, Riverhead Books, $16, 9780525535287
13. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
14. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston, Amistad, $17.99, 9780061120060
15. A Better Man
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $17.99, 9781250066312
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
2. My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470
3. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
4. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
5. Wow, No Thank You.
Samantha Irby, Vintage, $15.95, 9780525563488
6. The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom, Grove Press, $17, 9780802149039
7. The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536
8. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254
9. Know My Name
Chanel Miller, Penguin, $18, 9780735223721
10. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
Sun Yung Shin (Ed.), Minnesota Historical Society Press, $18.95, 9781681340029
11. Intimations
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612
12. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
13. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
14. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
15. A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell, Penguin, $18, 9780735225312
 
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
4. Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $12, 9780140177398
5. Savage Run
C.J. Box, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $9.99, 9780399575693
6. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $7.99, 9781250068736
7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688
8. Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.99, 9780345806543
9. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $9.99, 9780765365279
10. Vanishing Act
Thomas Perry, Fawcett, $7.99, 9780804113878
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $19.95, 9780060254926
2. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
3. Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Board Book
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
4. We Will Rock Our Classmates
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $17.99, 9781368059596
5. I Promise
LeBron James, Nina Mata (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780062971067
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. My Spooky Halloween
Mariana Herrera, Molly Fehr (Illus.), HarperFestival, $7.99, 9780062915986
8. Mother Bruce
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $17.99, 9781484730881
9. It's Okay to Be Different
Todd Parr, Little, Brown Young Readers, $8, 9780316043472
10. Hello, Farm!
Maddie Frost, Workman, $5.95, 9781523504671
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas, Swoon Reads, $17.99, 9781250250469
2. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
3. Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062840356
4. Legendborn
Tracy Deonn, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $18.99, 9781534441606
5. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
6. Watch Over Me
Nina LaCour, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593108970
7. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
8. Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $7.99, 9780763680862
9. Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9780062996480
10. Skunk and Badger
Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Algonquin Young Readers, $18.95, 9781643750057
 
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. Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (Who Was/Is…?)
Patricia Brennan Demuth, Jake Murray (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $5.99, 9781524793531
4. Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective)
Alok Vaid-Menon, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $8.99, 9780593094655
5. Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel)
Kelly Yang, Scholastic, $17.99, 9781338591385
6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780439136365
7. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic, $4.99, 9780545919739
8. Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle, $5.99, 9780811849098
9. CatStronauts: Mission Moon
Drew Brockington, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316307451
10. Happy Narwhalidays (Narwhal and Jelly, #5)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $12.99, 9780735262515