NONFICTION FICTION 1. Becoming 5. Women Rowing North 6. … · 2019-01-20 · 14. The Handmaid’s...
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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 1/20/2019 FICTION NONFICTION Midwest Connections Pick “A story told in turns by a rich and real cast of charac- ters, brought to life by an author with an acute eye for what makes us all so very human. . . . At times laugh- out-loud funny, We’re All In This Together deftly taps into the fears and failures of all of us.” -- Toronto Star Midwest Indie Bestsellers Midwest Connections Pick “Readers will have a hard time putting this story down, even as it pulls them deeper into the rabbit hole that is Limetown.” --Publishers Weekly 1. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26 2. The Overstory Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95 3. There There Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95 4. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 5. Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30 6. The Reckoning John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95 7. The Friend Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead, $25 8. My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite, Doubleday, $22.95 9. Circe Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27 10. Virgil Wander Leif Enger, Grove Press, $27 11. The New Iberia Blues James Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99 12. Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99 13. Fire & Blood George R.R. Martin, Doug Wheatley (Illus.), Bantam, $35 14. Washington Black Esi Edugyan, Knopf, $26.95 15. The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $26 1. Becoming Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50 2. Educated Tara Westover, Random House, $28 3. Girl, Wash Your Face Rachel Hollis, Thomas Nelson, $22.99 4. The Library Book Susan Orlean, S&S, $28 5. Women Rowing North Mary Pipher, Bloomsbury, $27 6. Whose Boat Is This Boat? The Staff of The Late Show, S&S, $14.99 7. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99 8. The First Conspiracy Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch, Flatiron Books, $29.99 9. Gmorning, Gnight! Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22 10. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari, Spiegel & Grau, $28 11. The Truths We Hold Kamala Harris, Penguin Press, $30 12. Dare to Lead Brené Brown, Random House, $28 13. Almost Everything Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20 14. The Clean Plate Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central Life & Style, $35 15. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95
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Indie Bestsellers
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Midwest Connections Pick“A story told in turns by a rich and real cast of charac-ters, brought to life by an author with an acute eye for what makes us all so very human. . . . At times laugh-out-loud funny, We’re All In This Together deftly taps into the fears and failures of all of us.” -- Toronto Star
Midwest Indie Bestsellers
Midwest Connections Pick“Readers will have a hard time putting this story down, even as it pulls them deeper into the rabbit hole that is Limetown.” --Publishers Weekly
1. Where the Crawdads SingDelia Owens, Putnam, $26
2. The OverstoryRichard Powers, Norton, $27.95
3. There ThereTommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95
4. A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles, Viking, $27
5. DevotionsMary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30
6. The ReckoningJohn Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95
7. The Friend Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead, $25
8. My Sister, the Serial KillerOyinkan Braithwaite, Doubleday, $22.95
9. CirceMadeline Miller, Little Brown, $27
10. Virgil Wander Leif Enger, Grove Press, $27
11. The New Iberia BluesJames Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99
12. UnshelteredBarbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99
13. Fire & BloodGeorge R.R. Martin, Doug Wheatley (Illus.), Bantam, $35
14. Washington Black Esi Edugyan, Knopf, $26.95
15. The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $26
1. BecomingMichelle Obama, Crown, $32.50
2. EducatedTara Westover, Random House, $28
3. Girl, Wash Your FaceRachel Hollis, Thomas Nelson, $22.99
4. The Library BookSusan Orlean, S&S, $28
5. Women Rowing North Mary Pipher, Bloomsbury, $27
6. Whose Boat Is This Boat? The Staff of The Late Show, S&S, $14.99
7. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying UpMarie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99
8. The First Conspiracy Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch, Flatiron Books, $29.99
9. Gmorning, Gnight!Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22
10. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari, Spiegel & Grau, $28
11. The Truths We HoldKamala Harris, Penguin Press, $30
12. Dare to LeadBrené Brown, Random House, $28
13. Almost Everything Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20
14. The Clean Plate Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central Life & Style, $35
15. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95
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Midwest Indie Bestsellers
1. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.992. The Shining, Stephen King, Anchor, $8.993. Dune, Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.994. Anthem, Ayn Rand, Signet, $7.995. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.996. 1984, George Orwell, Signet, $9.997. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.998. The Bone Tree, Greg Iles, Morrow, $9.999. The Crooked Staircase, Dean Koontz, Bantam, $9.9910. Othello, William Shakespeare, S&S, $5.99
Mass Market
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Midwest Connections Pick“Franzen displays his signature precision and deadpan humor.” — Vanity Fair
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for the week ending 1/20/2019
1. The Tattooist of AuschwitzHeather Morris, Harper, $16.992. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineGail Honeyman, Penguin, $163. The PowerNaomi Alderman, Back Bay, $16.994. MilkmanAnna Burns, Graywolf Press, $165. Tangerine Christine Mangan, Ecco, $16.996. AsymmetryLisa Halliday, S&S, $16, 97815011667857. Beartown Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $178. The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.999. Paris by the Book Liam Callanan, Dutton, $1610. If Beale Street Could TalkJames Baldwin, Vintage, $14.9511. Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Mariner, $14.9912. Love and RuinPaula McLain, Ballantine, $1713. In the Midst of Winter Isabel Allende, Atria, $1714. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.9515. LessAndrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99
1. Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann, Vintage, $16.95
2. SapiensYuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99
3. White Fragility Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16
4. Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18
5. No Time to Spare Ursula K. Le Guin, Mariner, $14.99
6. Cali’flour KitchenAmy Lacey, Abrams, $19.99
7. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17
8. How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, Broadway, $15
9. This Blessed Earth Ted Genoways, Norton, $15.95
10. My Own WordsRuth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18
11. Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Morrow, $14.99
12. Emergent Strategy Adrienne Maree Brown, AK Press, $16
13. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $22
14. Craft Alexander Langlands, Norton, $16.95
15. The Body Keeps the Score Bessel Van Der Kolk, Penguin, $18
Children’s
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Midwest Indie Bestsellersfor the week ending 1/20/2019
Children’s Series Titles1. The Wild Robot, Peter Brown, Little Brown, $16.992. A Map of Days (The Fourth Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children), Ransom Riggs, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $22.993. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay (Harry Potter), J.K. Rowling, MinaLima (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $24.994. There Is a Bird on Your Head! (Elephant & Piggie), Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $9.995. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown, Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $13.956. Dog Man and Cat Kid, Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.997. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, Brian Selznick (Illus.), Mary GrandPré (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $12.998. P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, #2), Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $10.999. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1), Rick Riordan, Hyperion,
ILLUSTRATED1. The Snowy DayEzra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99
2. The Wonky DonkeyCraig Smith, Katz Cowley (Illus.), Scholastic, $7.99
3. Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $7.99
4. We Don’t Eat Our ClassmatesRyan T. Higgins, Disney/Hyperion, $17.99
5. My HeartCorinna Luyken, Dial Books, $17.99
6. P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book EverRaj Haldar, Chris Carpenter, Maria Beddia (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $17.99
7. Goodnight MoonMargaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99
8. There Are No Bears in This Bakery Julia Sarcone-Roach, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99
9. Pat the BunnyDorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99
10. Love, Z Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99
Midwest Connections Pick
YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE
1. The Hate U GiveAngie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99
2. Max and the MidknightsLincoln Peirce, Crown Books for Young Read-ers, $13.99
3. Children of Blood and BoneTomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $18.99
4. The Prince and the DressmakerJen Wang, First Second, $16.99
5. A Velocity of Being Maria Popova, Claudia Bedrick (Eds.), Enchant-ed Lion Books, $34.95
6. Save Me a Seat Sarah Weeks, Gita Varadarajan, Scholastic, $7.99
7. Harbor Me Jacqueline Woodson, Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99
8. Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson, Puffin, $10.99
9. Wishtree Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $16.99
10. Louisiana’s Way HomeKate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $16.99
Midwest Connections Pick“Brilliant, breathtaking, insightful and absolutely impos-sible to put down, Speechless is Jimmy’s story, Patrick’s story, Sophia’s story. Is everyone’s story who has been asked to do the impossible.” -- Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC
"There’s lots of hugging and happiness in this book that will make readers of all ages smile." -- Pioneer Press
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Midwest Connections Pick Midwest Connections Pick “A Key to Treehouse Living is revelatory, a literary lighthouse that forges new routes of understanding. Every life is uncharted terrain, but Elliot Reed gives us a roadmap so that we might understand in more clearer terms how to transverse our terrifying, wonderful world.” – Rachel Kaplan, Avid Bookshop
“The Great Believers kept me up reading late into the night, and I’d wake up thinking about Makkai’s vibrant, complex, and deeply human characters. This is an immersive, heartbreaking novel—I loved it.” —Maggie Shipstead, author of Astonish Me
HARDCOVER
1. Where the Crawdads SingDelia Owens, Putnam, $26
2. The OverstoryRichard Powers, Norton, $27.95
3. There ThereTommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95
4. A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles, Viking, $27
5. DevotionsMary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30
6. The ReckoningJohn Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95
7. The Friend Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead, $25
8. My Sister, the Serial KillerOyinkan Braithwaite, Doubleday, $22.95
9. CirceMadeline Miller, Little Brown, $27
10. Virgil Wander Leif Enger, Grove Press, $27
11. The New Iberia BluesJames Lee Burke, S&S, $27.99
12. UnshelteredBarbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99
13. Fire & BloodGeorge R.R. Martin, Doug Wheatley (Illus.), Bantam, $35
14. Washington Black Esi Edugyan, Knopf, $26.95
15. The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $26
1. The Tattooist of AuschwitzHeather Morris, Harper, $16.992. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely FineGail Honeyman, Penguin, $163. The PowerNaomi Alderman, Back Bay, $16.994. MilkmanAnna Burns, Graywolf Press, $165. Tangerine Christine Mangan, Ecco, $16.996. AsymmetryLisa Halliday, S&S, $16, 97815011667857. Beartown Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $178. The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.999. Paris by the Book Liam Callanan, Dutton, $1610. If Beale Street Could TalkJames Baldwin, Vintage, $14.9511. Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Mariner, $14.9912. Love and RuinPaula McLain, Ballantine, $1713. In the Midst of Winter Isabel Allende, Atria, $1714. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.9515. LessAndrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99
Nonfiction
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HARDCOVER PAPERBACK
Midwest Connections Pick“A fantastic essay collection... Blending personal reflec-tion with historical analysis and cultural and literary crit-icism, these essays are a sharp, illuminating response to the nation’s continuing racial conflicts.”--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
1. BecomingMichelle Obama, Crown, $32.50
2. EducatedTara Westover, Random House, $28
3. Girl, Wash Your FaceRachel Hollis, Thomas Nelson, $22.99
4. The Library BookSusan Orlean, S&S, $28
5. Women Rowing North Mary Pipher, Bloomsbury, $27
6. Whose Boat Is This Boat? The Staff of The Late Show, S&S, $14.99
7. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying UpMarie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99
8. The First Conspiracy Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch, Flatiron Books, $29.99
9. Gmorning, Gnight!Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22
10. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari, Spiegel & Grau, $28
11. The Truths We HoldKamala Harris, Penguin Press, $30
12. Dare to LeadBrené Brown, Random House, $28
13. Almost Everything Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20
14. The Clean Plate Gwyneth Paltrow, Grand Central Life & Style, $35
15. The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95
1. Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann, Vintage, $16.95
2. SapiensYuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99
3. White Fragility Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16
4. Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18
5. No Time to Spare Ursula K. Le Guin, Mariner, $14.99
6. Cali’flour KitchenAmy Lacey, Abrams, $19.99
7. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17
8. How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, Broadway, $15
9. This Blessed Earth Ted Genoways, Norton, $15.95
10. My Own WordsRuth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18
11. Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Morrow, $14.99
12. Emergent Strategy Adrienne Maree Brown, AK Press, $16
13. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $22
14. Craft Alexander Langlands, Norton, $16.95
15. The Body Keeps the Score Bessel Van Der Kolk, Penguin, $18
1. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.992. The Shining, Stephen King, Anchor, $8.993. Dune, Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.994. Anthem, Ayn Rand, Signet, $7.995. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.996. 1984, George Orwell, Signet, $9.997. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.998. The Bone Tree, Greg Iles, Morrow, $9.999. The Crooked Staircase, Dean Koontz, Bantam, $9.9910. Othello, William Shakespeare, S&S, $5.99
