Hardcover. for the week ending 2/4/2018. Midwest Connections Pick

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1 Indie Midwest Bestsellers Indie Bestsellers Hardcover FICTION 1. Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $26 2. Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27 3. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 4. The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn, Morrow, $ The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $26 6. The Grave s a Fine and Private Place Alan Bradley, Delacorte Press, $26 7. The Power Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26 8. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson, Random House, $27 9. Uncommon Type Tom Hanks, Knopf, $ Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $ Still Me Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $ Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich, Harper, $ Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders, Random House, $ The Rooster Bar John Grisham, Doubleday, $ Munich Robert Harris, Knopf, $27.95 This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt. People (Book of the Week) NONFICTION 1. Fire and Fury Michael Wolff, Holt, $30 2. Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Doubleday, $ The Book of Joy The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26 4. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil degrasse Tyson, Norton, $ The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson, Scribner, $ Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $40 7. The Monk of Mokha Dave Eggers, Knopf, $ How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, Crown, $26 9. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $ No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters Ursula K. Le Guin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $ When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, St. Martin s, $ Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic David Frum, Harper, $ Code Girls Liza Mundy, Hachette, $ The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $ The Sioux Chef s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman, University of Minnesota Press, $34.95 An insightful, highly significant account that makes no predictions but lays out the critical environmental problems already upon us. --Kirkus starred review

2 Paperback FICTION 1. The Women in the Castle Jessica Shattuck, Morrow, $ The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $ Call Me by Your Name Andre Aciman, Picador USA, $17 4. The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16 6. Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $ A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $ The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $ Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $ Celine Peter Heller, Vintage, $ Commonwealth Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $ News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $ Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $ Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $ History of Wolves Emily Fridlund, Grove Press, $16 Mass Market 1. Ready Player One Ernest Cline, Broadway, $ The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ Lord of the Flies William Golding, Perigee, $ Outlander Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $ A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $ The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $ The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin, Voyager, $ Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $ The Whistler John Grisham, Dell, $ No Middle Name Lee Child, Dell, $9.99 NONFICTION 1. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 2. On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $ Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador USA, $16 4. The 5 Love Languages Gary Chapman, Northfield, $ You Are a Badass Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16 6. The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $ Janesville: An American Story Amy Goldstein, S&S, $16 8. The Old Farmer s Almanac Old Farmer s Almanac, $ They Can t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib, Two Dollar Radio, $ The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father Kao Kalia Yang, Picador USA, $ Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Penguin, $ Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $ Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire Gordon Whitman, Berrett-Koehler, $ We Are Never Meeting in Real Life Samantha Irby, Vintage, $ Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli, Coffee House Press, $12.95 Fridlund shines a spotlight on what gets hidden and unreported, and the result can be overwhelming cutting and funny and filled with difficult truth. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

3 Children s ILLUSTRATED 1. Love Matt de la Peña, Loren Long (Illus.), Putnam, 2. Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth Oliver Jeffers, Philomel, $ Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $ Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial, $ Click, Clack, Moo I Love You! Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illus.), Atheneum, 6. She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger (Illus.), Philomel, 7. Things That Go! Amy Pixton, Stephan Lomp (Illus.), Workman, $ The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle, Putnam, $ Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Harper, $ On the Night You Were Born Nancy Tillman, Feiwel & Friends, $7.99 Children s Series Titles 1. Dog Man and Cat Kid Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ Should I Share My Ice Cream? (Elephant & Piggie) Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $ Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $ Mercy Watson to the Rescue Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.), Candlewick, $ Dog Man Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, The Princess in Black Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $ We Are Growing! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!) Mo Willems, Laurie Keller, Disney/ Hyperion, $ Pete the Cat: Snow Daze (I Can Read Series) James Dean, Harper, $ The Maze Runner James Dashner, Delacorte, $ The Land of Stories: An Author s Odyssey Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $9.99 YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE 1. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L Engle, Farrar Straus Giroux, $ Wonder R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $ The Hate U Give Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, 4. Salt to the Sea Ruta Sepetys, Penguin, $ The War That Saved My Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Puffin, $ The Hazel Wood Melissa Albert, Flatiron, $ The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $ Renegades Marissa Meyer, Feiwel & Friends, $ The Lost Rainforest: Mez s Magic Eliot Schrefer, Emilia Dziubak (Illus.), Katherine Tegen Books, $ One of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, A wonderfully clever and ultimately triumphant journey of self-discovery... Little i may be a mere cutout letter, but his humanity shines through. New York Times Book Review Kuefler imbues the text with the heart and soul of the best storytime fare...one couldn t hope for a better tale of rebirth and regeneration. Kirkus Reviews / Starred Review

4 Fiction HARDCOVER 1. Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, Scribner, $26 2. Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $27 3. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 4. The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn, Morrow, $ The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin, Putnam, $26 6. The Grave s a Fine and Private Place Alan Bradley, Delacorte Press, $26 7. The Power Naomi Alderman, Little Brown, $26 8. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson, Random House, $27 9. Uncommon Type Tom Hanks, Knopf, $ Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $ Still Me Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $ Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich, Harper, $ Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders, Random House, $ The Rooster Bar John Grisham, Doubleday, $ Munich Robert Harris, Knopf, $27.95 PAPERBACK 1. The Women in the Castle Jessica Shattuck, Morrow, $ The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $ Call Me by Your Name Andre Aciman, Picador USA, $17 4. The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16 6. Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $ A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $ The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $ Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $ Celine Peter Heller, Vintage, $ Commonwealth Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $ News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $ Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $ Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $ History of Wolves Emily Fridlund, Grove Press, $16 This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt. People (Book of the Week) Brashear s stunning YA novel is as spectacularly written as it is researched. This is definitely one of the most unique YA novels you ll read this year. PASTE Magazine

5 Nonfiction Mass Market HARDCOVER 1. Fire and Fury Michael Wolff, Holt, $30 2. Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Doubleday, $ The Book of Joy The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26 4. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil degrasse Tyson, Norton, $ The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson, Scribner, $ Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $40 7. The Monk of Mokha Dave Eggers, Knopf, $ How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt, Crown, $26 9. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $ No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters Ursula K. Le Guin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $ When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, St. Martin s, $ Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic David Frum, Harper, $ Code Girls Liza Mundy, Hachette, $ The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $ The Sioux Chef s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman, University of Minnesota Press, $ Ready Player One Ernest Cline, Broadway, $ The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ Lord of the Flies William Golding, Perigee, $ Outlander Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $ A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $ The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $ The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin, Voyager, $ Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $ The Whistler John Grisham, Dell, $ No Middle Name Lee Child, Dell, $9.99 PAPERBACK 1. Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 2. On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $ Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador USA, $16 4. The 5 Love Languages Gary Chapman, Northfield, $ You Are a Badass Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16 6. The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $ Janesville: An American Story Amy Goldstein, S&S, $16 8. The Old Farmer s Almanac Old Farmer s Almanac, $ They Can t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib, Two Dollar Radio, $ The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father Kao Kalia Yang, Picador USA, $ Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Penguin, $ Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $ Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire Gordon Whitman, Berrett-Koehler, $ We Are Never Meeting in Real Life Samantha Irby, Vintage, $ Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli, Coffee House Press, $12.95 An insightful, highly significant account that makes no predictions but lays out the critical environmental problems already upon us. --Kirkus starred review