The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by 
IndieBound and MIBA, for the week ended Sunday, November 18, 2018. 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. Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99, 9780062684561
2. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa, Berkley, $20, 9780451491336
3. Virgil Wander
Leif Enger, Grove Press, $27, 9780802128782
4. Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250069825
5. The Shadows We Hide
Allen Eskens, Mulholland Books, $27, 9780316509787
6. The Colors of All the Cattle
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $25.95, 9781524747800
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27, 9780670026197
8. Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30, 9780525520047
9. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
Helene Tursten, Soho Crime, $12.99, 9781641290111
10. The Witch Elm
Tana French, Viking, $28, 9780735224629
11. There There
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525520375
12. Transcription
Kate Atkinson, Little Brown, $28, 9780316176637
13. The Collector's Apprentice
B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin Books, $27.95, 9781616203580
14. The Winter Soldier
Daniel Mason, Little Brown, $28, 9780316477604
15. The Reckoning
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385544153
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138
2. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22, 9781984854278
3. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $30, 9781476795928
4. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504
5. Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a 
Hurricane
The Staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, S&S, $14.99, 9781982121082
6. The Library Book
Susan Orlean, S&S, $28, 9781476740188
7. Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
Jeff Tweedy, Dutton, $28, 9781101985267
8. Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20, 9780525537441
9. Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis, Thomas Nelson, $22.99, 9781400201655
10. Cook Like a Pro: Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780804187046
11. The Good Neighbor
Maxwell King, Abrams, $30, 9781419727726
12. Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss, Crown, $35, 9780307409607
13. Killing the SS
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9781250165541
14. Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking, Bantam, $25, 9781984819192
15. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron de Hart, Knopf, $35, 9781400040483
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Less
Andrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316316132
2. Hope Never Dies
Andrew Shaffer, Quirk Books, $14.99, 9781683690399
3. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16, 9780735220690
4. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
5. Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan, Anchor, $16, 9780525563761
6. Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062694065
7. Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners
Gretchen Anthony, Park Row, $16.99, 9780778307860
8. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $15.95, 9781400034772
9. Lord of the Butterflies
Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry, $16, 9781943735426
10. News of the World
Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $15.99, 9780062409218
11. Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $16, 9781451645859
12. The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99, 9781250130945
13. The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99, 9780316229296
14. The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson, Penguin, $16, 9780143039983
15. The Best American Short Stories 2018
Roxane Gay, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9780544582941
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307742483
2. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062316110
3. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $8.99, 9780804190114
4. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
5. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan, Norton, $17.95, 9780393355550
6. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
7. Madison in the Sixties
Stuart D. Levitan, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $29.95, 9780870208836
8. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $18, 9780399590573
9. Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
James R. Doty, Avery Publishing, $16, 9780399183645
10. The Man Who Invented Christmas
Les Standiford, Broadway Books, $16, 9780307405791
11. On Trails
Robert Moor, S&S, $16, 9781476739236
12. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Alexander Chee, Mariner, $15.99, 9781328764522
13. Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
David Yaffe, Sarah Crichton Books, $17, 9780374538064
14. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib, Two Dollar Radio, $15.99, 9781937512651
15. Lab Girl
Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16, 9781101873724
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
3. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983
4. Outlander
Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99, 9780553393699
5. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $7.99, 9780062073488
6. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin's, $7.99, 9781250068736
7. The People vs. Alex Cross
James Patterson, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538760642
8. Mutation
Robin Cook, Putnam, $8.99, 9780425119655
9. Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.99, 9780345806543
10. The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756407919
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Wonky Donkey
Craig Smith, Katz Cowley (Illus.), Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545261241
2. The Snowy Nap
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780399170737
3. Red and Lulu
Matt Tavares, Candlewick Press, $17.99, 9780763677336
4. Pete the Cat's 12 Groovy Days of Christmas
James Dean, Kimberly Dean, Harper, $12.99, 9780062675279
5. Construction Site on Christmas Night
Sherri Duskey Rinker, A.G. Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.99, 9781452139111
6. Winter Dance
Marion Dane Bauer, Richard Jones (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9781328525345
7. Santa Bruce
Ryan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $17.99, 9781484782903
8. P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever
Raj Haldar, Maria Beddia (Illus.), Chris Carpenter, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $17.99, 9781492674313
9. 8 Little Planets
Chris Ferrie, Lizzy Doyle (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $10.99, 9781492671244
10. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Louisiana's Way Home
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $16.99, 9780763694630
2. Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $26, 9781984830159
3. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
4. Harbor Me
Jacqueline Woodson, Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780399252525
5. The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs
America's Test Kitchen Kids, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $19.99, 9781492670025
6. The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid
Dylan Thuras, Rosemary Mosco, Joy Ang (Illus.), Workman, $19.95, 9781523503544
7. Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different
Ben Brooks, Quinton Wintor (Illus.), Running Press Kids, $16.99, 9780762465927
8. Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $18.99, 9781250170972
9. The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo, HarperTeen, $17.99, 9780062662804
10. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson, HarperTrophy, $5.99, 9780064402750
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES TITLES
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $13.95, 9781419727436
2. Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545935173
3. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay (Harry Potter)
J.K. Rowling, Arthur A. Levine Books, $24.99, 9781338263893
4. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little Brown, $16.99, 9780316381994
6. Flashback (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #7)
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $19.99, 9781481497435
7. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $9.99, 9781442445949
8. Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #2)
Jessica Townsend, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316508919
9. I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived, #17)
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic, $4.99, 9780545919821
10. The Magic Misfits
Neil Patrick Harris, Lissy Marlin (Illus.), Kyle Hilton (Illus.), Little Brown, $7.99, 9780316355575