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1 Indie Midwest Bestsellers Indie Bestsellers Hardcover FICTION 1. Origin Dan Brown, Doubleday, $ Uncommon Type Tom Hanks, Knopf, $ A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 4. Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30 5. Deep Freeze John Sandford, Putnam, $29 6. Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders, Random House, $28 7. Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $27 8. The Rules of Magic Alice Hoffman, S&S, $ Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $ It Devours! Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, Harper Perennial, $ To Be Where You Are Jan Karon, Putnam, $ A Legacy of Spies John le Carré, Viking, $ Sleeping Beauties Stephen King, Owen King, Scribner, $ Beartown Fredrik Backman, Atria, $ Sulfur Springs William Kent Krueger, Atria, $26 NONFICTION 1. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35 2. Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $40 3. What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $30 4. We Were Eight Years in Power Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $28 5. The Wisdom of Sundays Oprah Winfrey, Flatiron, $ Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil degrasse Tyson, Norton, $ Al Franken, Giant of the Senate Al Franken, Twelve, $28 8. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $ Killing England Bill O Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $ Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery Scott Kelly, Knopf, $ Braving the Wilderness Brene Brown, Random House, $ The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $ Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History Katy Tur, Dey Street, $ The End of Alzheimer s Dale Bredesen, Avery, $ The Book of Joy The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26 Barber is a delightful writer who has produced a taut thriller that will leave you wondering the identity of the killer. My prediction: the book is destined for the New York Times best seller list. Chicago Tribune Alongside these deeply personal political poems are love poems, a crown of sonnets, and all sorts of extended meditations on his central themes of race, sexuality, and violence. This will be one of the year s essential books. Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR

2 Paperback FICTION 1. The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $17 4. The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $ A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16 6. News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $ The Nightingale Kristin Hannah, St. Martin s Griffin, $ Wintering Peter Geye, Vintage, $16 9. Ready Player One Ernest Cline, Broadway, $ The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $ The Best American Short Stories 2017 Meg Wolitzer, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $ The Things They Carried Tim O Brien, Mariner, $ Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $ The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99 Mass Market 1. American Gods Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $ It Can t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $ George Orwell, Signet, $ The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $ Carrie Stephen King, Anchor, $ Outlander Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $ Duke of Desire Elizabeth Hoyt, Grand Central Publishing, $ Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin, Vintage, $ Women Who Run With the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99 NONFICTION 1. Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador USA, $16 2. Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Harper Perennial, $ Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 4. Basketball (and Other Things) Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres (Illus.), Abrams Image, $ On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $ Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $10 7. Books for Living Will Schwalbe, Vintage, $16 8. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20 9. Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $ Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories Jerold W. Apps, Susan Apps-Bodilly, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $ Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $ Dark Money Jane Mayer, Anchor, $ Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places Colin Dickey, Penguin, $ Victoria & Abdul Shrabani Basu, Vintage, $ Lab Girl Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16 For its wisdom and compassion, honesty and courage, Stielstra s stellar essay collection is a lifeline and a microscope, a means of examining the dread of whatever one finds daunting and a manner of exorcising demons through the sheer power of commitment and desire. -Booklist (starred review)

3 Children s ILLUSTRATED 1. Creepy Pair of Underwear! Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster (BYR), $ Little Blue Truck s Halloween Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $ The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $ After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) Dan Santat, Roaring Brook Press, $ Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $ Spooky Pookie Sandra Boynton, Little Simon, $ A Is for Activist Innosanto Nagara, Triangle Square, $ Malala s Magic Pencil Malala Yousafzai, Kerascoët (Illus.), Little Brown (BYR), $ She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger (Illus.), Philomel, $ Little Blue Truck Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $7.99 Children s Series Titles 1. Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $ Dog Man Unleashed Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe (Dork Diaries, #12) Rachel Renee Russell, Aladdin, $ Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $ Dog Man Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $ The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illus.), Arthur A. Levine Books, $ The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide Chris Colfer, Little Brown, $19.99 YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE 1. Turtles All the Way Down John Green, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $ The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $ All s Faire in Middle School Victoria Jamieson, Dial, $ The Hate U Give Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $ Ghosts Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $ Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon, Ember, $ The War I Finally Won Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Dial, $ Crenshaw Katherine Applegate, Square Fish, $ Wonder R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $ Salt to the Sea Ruta Sepetys, Penguin, $10.99 Gentle, melodic prose and evocative art rise above the melancholy to tell a powerful, multilayered story about family, memory, and the costs of becoming a refugee. Spare and simple, a must-read for our times. Kirkus, starred review Required reading for anyone who s ever loved or lost someone but especially both. --John Corey Whaley, National Book Award finalist

4 Fiction HARDCOVER 1. Origin Dan Brown, Doubleday, $ Uncommon Type Tom Hanks, Knopf, $ A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27 4. Devotions Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $30 5. Deep Freeze John Sandford, Putnam, $29 6. Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders, Random House, $28 7. Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $27 8. The Rules of Magic Alice Hoffman, S&S, $ Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng, Penguin Press, $ It Devours! Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, Harper Perennial, $ To Be Where You Are Jan Karon, Putnam, $ A Legacy of Spies John le Carré, Viking, $ Sleeping Beauties Stephen King, Owen King, Scribner, $ Beartown Fredrik Backman, Atria, $ Sulfur Springs William Kent Krueger, Atria, $26 PAPERBACK 1. The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly, Ballantine, $17 4. The Handmaid s Tale Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $ A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16 6. News of the World Paulette Jiles, Morrow, $ The Nightingale Kristin Hannah, St. Martin s Griffin, $ Wintering Peter Geye, Vintage, $16 9. Ready Player One Ernest Cline, Broadway, $ The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $ Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press, $ The Best American Short Stories 2017 Meg Wolitzer, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $ The Things They Carried Tim O Brien, Mariner, $ Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $ The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin, Orbit, $15.99 Fuller s keen sense of engagement with a land to which you now don t belong, and her place as an outsider, make her a sympathetic storyteller. Her prose shimmers and vibrates with life in this excellent novel. Publishers Weekly An unmistakably contemporary novel. This is the future that our conservative forebears were scared of, in all its messy, hopeful glory. J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest

5 Nonfiction HARDCOVER 1. Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35 2. Grant Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $40 3. What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton, S&S, $30 4. We Were Eight Years in Power Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $28 5. The Wisdom of Sundays Oprah Winfrey, Flatiron, $ Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil degrasse Tyson, Norton, $ Al Franken, Giant of the Senate Al Franken, Twelve, $28 8. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance, Harper, $ Killing England Bill O Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $ Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery Scott Kelly, Knopf, $ Braving the Wilderness Brene Brown, Random House, $ The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $ Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History Katy Tur, Dey Street, $ The End of Alzheimer s Dale Bredesen, Avery, $ The Book of Joy The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26 Mass Market 1. American Gods Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $ It Can t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $ George Orwell, Signet, $ The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $ A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $ Carrie Stephen King, Anchor, $ Outlander Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $ Duke of Desire Elizabeth Hoyt, Grand Central Publishing, $ Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin, Vintage, $ Women Who Run With the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99 PAPERBACK 1. Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador USA, $16 2. Healing After Loss Martha W. Hickman, Harper Perennial, $ Evicted Matthew Desmond, Broadway, $17 4. Basketball (and Other Things) Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres (Illus.), Abrams Image, $ On Tyranny Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $ Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $10 7. Books for Living Will Schwalbe, Vintage, $16 8. Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, Penguin, $20 9. Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $ Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories Jerold W. Apps, Susan Apps-Bodilly, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $ Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $ Dark Money Jane Mayer, Anchor, $ Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places Colin Dickey, Penguin, $ Victoria & Abdul Shrabani Basu, Vintage, $ Lab Girl Hope Jahren, Vintage, $16 Goldstein is a gifted storyteller, and Janesville is a raw, beautiful story, one that sheds needed light on a country searching for some pathway to the future. J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy