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Hardcover Brought to you by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound based on reporting from MIBA’s member bookstores. = Only on the Midwest list = Midwest Connections pick for the week ending 7/9/2017 FICTION NONFICTION Midwest Connections Pick An “utterly entrancing novel… a lucid, provocative exploration of contemporary culture and themes like power, money, and friendship.” —Nylon Midwest Indie Bestsellers 1. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 2. Camino Island John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95 3. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy, Knopf, $28.95 4. The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95 5. Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman, Norton, $25.95 6. The Little French Bistro Nina George, Crown, $26 7. Beartown Fredrik Backman, Atria, $26.99 8. Exit West Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $26 9. Men Without Women Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95 10. Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz, Harper, $27.99 11. Spoonbenders Daryl Gregory, Knopf, $27.95 12. The Force Don Winslow, Morrow, $27.99 13. Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders, Random House, $28 14. The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry, Custom House, $26.99 15. I’d Die for You: And Other Lost Stories F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $28 1. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate Al Franken, Twelve, $28 2. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson, Norton, $18.95 3. Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) David Sedaris, Little Brown, $28 4. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay, Harper, $25.99 5. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95 6. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99 7. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie, Little Brown, $28 8. Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Doubleday, $28.95 9. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens Eddie Izzard, Blue Rider, $28 10. Option B Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant, Knopf, $25.95 11. Dangerous Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous Books, $30 12. Born a Crime Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $28 13. Hue 1968 Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly Press, $30 14. Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir Amy Thielen, Clarkson Potter, $26 15. Churchill and Orwell Thomas E. Ricks, Penguin Press, $28 Midwest Connections Pick “I was dazzled by South Pole Station—a terrifically witty, insightful, and satisfying novel, peopled by memorable misfits thrown together in a hothouse of conflicting interests in the frozen Antarctic.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen
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Brought to you by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound based on reporting from MIBA’s member bookstores.
= Only on the Midwest list= Midwest Connections pick
for the week ending 7/9/2017
Indie Bestsellers
FICTION NONFICTION
Midwest Connections Pick
An “utterly entrancing novel… a lucid, provocative exploration of contemporary culture and themes like power, money, and friendship.”
—Nylon
Midwest Indie Bestsellers
1. A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles, Viking, $27
2. Camino IslandJohn Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95
3. The Ministry of Utmost HappinessArundhati Roy, Knopf, $28.95
4. The Underground RailroadColson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95
5. Norse MythologyNeil Gaiman, Norton, $25.95
6. The Little French BistroNina George, Crown, $26
7. Beartown Fredrik Backman, Atria, $26.99
8. Exit West Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $26
9. Men Without Women Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95
10. Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz, Harper, $27.99
11. Spoonbenders Daryl Gregory, Knopf, $27.95
12. The ForceDon Winslow, Morrow, $27.99
13. Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders, Random House, $28
14. The Essex SerpentSarah Perry, Custom House, $26.99
15. I’d Die for You: And Other Lost Stories F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $28
1. Al Franken, Giant of the SenateAl Franken, Twelve, $282. Astrophysics for People in a HurryNeil deGrasse Tyson, Norton, $18.953. Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)David Sedaris, Little Brown, $284. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) BodyRoxane Gay, Harper, $25.995. The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.956. Hillbilly ElegyJ.D. Vance, Harper, $27.997. You Don’t Have to Say You Love MeSherman Alexie, Little Brown, $288. Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann, Doubleday, $28.959. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens Eddie Izzard, Blue Rider, $2810. Option BSheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant, Knopf, $25.9511. Dangerous Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous Books, $3012. Born a Crime Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $2813. Hue 1968Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly Press, $3014. Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir Amy Thielen, Clarkson Potter, $2615. Churchill and Orwell Thomas E. Ricks, Penguin Press, $28
Midwest Connections Pick“I was dazzled by South Pole Station—a terrifically witty, insightful, and satisfying novel, peopled by memorable misfits thrown together in a hothouse of conflicting interests in the frozen Antarctic.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen
Paperback
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Midwest Indie Bestsellers
1. American Gods Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.992. The Wise Man’s Fear Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.993. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.994. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.995. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.996. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Grand Central, $9.997. It Can’t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $9.998. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.999. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig, HarperTorch, $7.9910. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey, Signet, $9.99
Mass Market
FICTION
Midwest Connections Pick“Wry... compelling... it gains in depth as the family members uncover the mysterious truths of the people they thought they knew best.”— City Pages
NONFICTION
1. Lilac GirlsMartha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $172. The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.953. CommonwealthAnn Patchett, Harper Perennial, $16.994. A Man Called OveFredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $165. All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony Doerr, Scribner, $176. HomegoingYaa Gyasi, Vintage, $167. Milk and HoneyRupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.998. Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue, Random House, $179. News of the WorldPaulette Jiles, Morrow, $15.9910. The NightingaleKristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.9911. The Woman in Cabin 10Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $1612. Wintering Peter Geye, Vintage, $1613. Before the FallNoah Hawley, Grand Central, $15.9914. The Couple Next DoorShari Lapeana, Penguin, $1615. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16
1. EvictedMatthew Desmond, Broadway, $17
2. No Is Not EnoughNaomi Klein, Haymarket Books, $16.95
3. Strong Is the New Pretty Kate T. Parker, Workman, $17.95
4. On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $7.99
5. We Are Never Meeting in Real LifeSamantha Irby, Vintage, $15.95
6. The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks Terry Tempest Williams, Picador USA, $18
7. Lab Girl Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16
8. The Genius of BirdsJennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $17
9. You Are a BadassJen Sincero, Running Press, $16
10. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95
11. Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16
12. Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Harper Perennial, $14.99
13. The Zookeeper’s WifeDiane Ackerman, Norton, $15.95
14. Hero of the Empire Candice Millard, Anchor, $17
15. Birds of Wisconsin Field Guide Stan Tekiela, Adventure Publications, $12.95
for the week ending 7/9/2017
Children’s
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Midwest Indie Bestsellersfor the week ending 7/9/2017
Children’s Series Titles1. The Princess in Black Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Candlewick, $6.992. The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, Book Two) Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.993. Dog Man Unleashed Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.994. Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 1 & 2 Megan Butler, Claire Piddock (Illus.), Workman, $12.955. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay J.K. Rowling, Arthur A. Levine Books, $24.996. Dog Man Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.997. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs, Quirk, $11.998. The Last Star: The Final Book of the 5th Wave Rick Yancey, Speak, $10.999. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.9910. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5) Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99
ILLUSTRATED
1. Baby Animals Stephan Lomp, Workman, $5.952. She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the WorldChelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger (Illus.), Philomel, $17.993. Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic JourneyMartin Handford, Candlewick, $7.994. Dragons Love TacosAdam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $16.995. The Very Hungry CaterpillarEric Carle, Putnam, $10.996. LifeCynthia Rylant, Brendan Wenzel (Illus.), Beach Lane Books, $17.997. CorduroyDon Freeman, Viking Children’s Books, $7.998. Where’s Waldo? The Great Picture Hunt Martin Handford, Candlewick, $7.999. Little ExcavatorAnna Dewdney, Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.9910. Pat the Bunny Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99
Midwest Connections Pick
YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE
1. The Hate U GiveAngie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $17.99
2. The Girl Who Drank the MoonKelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $16.95
3. WonderR.J. Palacio, Knopf, $16.99
4. Everything, EverythingNicola Yoon, Ember, $10.99
5. The War That Saved My LifeKimberly Brubaker Bradley, Puffin, $8.99
6. Roller GirlVictoria Jamieson, Dial, $12.99
7. SistersRaina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99
8. A Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $6.99
9. Real FriendsShannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), First Second, $12.99
10. Fish in a TreeLynda Mullaly Hunt, Puffin, $8.99
Midwest Connections Pick“Walking in the moccasins of Four Winds is an extraor-dinary journey. Runs With Courage will both teach and inspire.” —Sandra Dallas, New York Times best-selling author of Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Skies, and The Quilt Walk
“Nicole Helget writes with grace, elegance, and humor about coming of age in a flawed world filled with beauty and peril. A poignant, uplifting, and entirely gripping read.” —Pete Hautman, National Book Award winning author of Godless
Fiction
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for the week ending 7/9/2017Midwest Indie Bestsellers
HARDCOVER PAPERBACK
Midwest Connections PickAlex George brings us a coming of age novel full to bursting with love, loss, and music. It touched every emotion from laughter to heartbreaking tears.” --Kate Schlademan from The Learned Owl Book Shop
for the week ending 2/19/2017
Midwest Connections Pick“Like a great campfire story, The Hearts of Men is epic and hushed in the right places, simultaneously local and universal, and brilliantly, beautifully unspooled” --J. Ryan Stradal, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest
1. A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles, Viking, $27
2. Camino IslandJohn Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95
3. The Ministry of Utmost HappinessArundhati Roy, Knopf, $28.95
4. The Underground RailroadColson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95
5. Norse MythologyNeil Gaiman, Norton, $25.95
6. The Little French BistroNina George, Crown, $26
7. Beartown Fredrik Backman, Atria, $26.99
8. Exit West Mohsin Hamid, Riverhead, $26
9. Men Without Women Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $25.95
10. Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz, Harper, $27.99
11. Spoonbenders Daryl Gregory, Knopf, $27.95
12. The ForceDon Winslow, Morrow, $27.99
13. Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders, Random House, $28
14. The Essex SerpentSarah Perry, Custom House, $26.99
15. I’d Die for You: And Other Lost Stories F.Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $28
1. Lilac GirlsMartha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $172. The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.953. CommonwealthAnn Patchett, Harper Perennial, $16.994. A Man Called OveFredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $165. All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony Doerr, Scribner, $176. HomegoingYaa Gyasi, Vintage, $167. Milk and HoneyRupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.998. Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue, Random House, $179. News of the WorldPaulette Jiles, Morrow, $15.9910. The NightingaleKristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.9911. The Woman in Cabin 10Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $1612. Wintering Peter Geye, Vintage, $1613. Before the FallNoah Hawley, Grand Central, $15.9914. The Couple Next DoorShari Lapeana, Penguin, $1615. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16
Nonfiction
Brought to you by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound based on reporting from MIBA’s member bookstores.
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Midwest Indie Bestsellersfor the week ending 7/9/2017
1. American Gods Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.992. The Wise Man’s Fear Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.993. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.994. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.995. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.996. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Grand Central, $9.997. It Can’t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $9.998. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.999. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig, HarperTorch, $7.9910. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey, Signet, $9.99
Mass Market
PAPERBACKHARDCOVER
Midwest Connections Pick“Goldbarth belongs by rights to the company of Amer-ica’s premiere literary essayists, somewhere between Annie Dillard and David Foster Wallace.” --Publishers Weekly
1. Al Franken, Giant of the SenateAl Franken, Twelve, $282. Astrophysics for People in a HurryNeil deGrasse Tyson, Norton, $18.953. Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)David Sedaris, Little Brown, $284. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) BodyRoxane Gay, Harper, $25.995. The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.956. Hillbilly ElegyJ.D. Vance, Harper, $27.997. You Don’t Have to Say You Love MeSherman Alexie, Little Brown, $288. Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann, Doubleday, $28.959. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens Eddie Izzard, Blue Rider, $2810. Option BSheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant, Knopf, $25.9511. Dangerous Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous Books, $3012. Born a Crime Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau, $2813. Hue 1968Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly Press, $3014. Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir Amy Thielen, Clarkson Potter, $2615. Churchill and Orwell Thomas E. Ricks, Penguin Press, $28
1. EvictedMatthew Desmond, Broadway, $17
2. No Is Not EnoughNaomi Klein, Haymarket Books, $16.95
3. Strong Is the New Pretty Kate T. Parker, Workman, $17.95
4. On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $7.99
5. We Are Never Meeting in Real LifeSamantha Irby, Vintage, $15.95
6. The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks Terry Tempest Williams, Picador USA, $18
7. Lab Girl Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16
8. The Genius of BirdsJennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $17
9. You Are a BadassJen Sincero, Running Press, $16
10. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95
11. Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16
12. Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Harper Perennial, $14.99
13. The Zookeeper’s WifeDiane Ackerman, Norton, $15.95
14. Hero of the Empire Candice Millard, Anchor, $17
15. Birds of Wisconsin Field Guide Stan Tekiela, Adventure Publications, $12.95
