Regional Bestsellers

 

The bestselling titles in the Reading the West region, for the week ended Sunday, May 23, based on reporting from the bookstores in the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.

Hardcover Fiction

#1 The Emperor of Gladness
By Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#2 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#3 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#4 Great Big Beautiful Life
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#5 A Curse Carved in Bone
By Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#6 My Name Is Emilia del Valle
By Isabel Allende (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#7 Nightshade
By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#8 The Knight and the Moth
By Rachel Gillig (Orbit)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 The Devils
By Joe Abercrombie (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#10 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#11 Fever Beach
By Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#12 The Names
By Florence Knapp (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#13 Run for the Hills
By Kevin Wilson (Ecco)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book

#14 Anima Rising
By Christopher Moore (William Morrow)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#15 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

Hardcover Nonfiction

#1 Is a River Alive?
By Robert Macfarlane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $31.99 / Get the Book

#2 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#3 The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
By Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins (Hay House LLC)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#5 We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
By Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle (The Dial Press)
Price: $34 / Get the Book

#6 The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
By Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#7 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#8 Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
By Michael Lewis (Ed.) (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#9 The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
By Rick Atkinson (Crown)
Price: $42 / Get the Book

#10 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#11 Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
By Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#12 Mark Twain
By Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
Price: $45 / Get the Book

#13 The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#14 Stuff Every Adult Should Know: A Pocket-Sized Guide to Grown-Up Know-How, from Taxes to Small Talk (Stuff You Should Know #32)
By Alyssa Favreau, Alanna Kalb, Brett Cohen (Quirk Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#15 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

Trade Paperback Fiction

#1 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#2 All Fours
By Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#3 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#4 The Handmaid's Tale
By Margaret Atwood (Anchor)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#5 Funny Story
By Emily Henry (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#6 North Woods
By Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#8 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#9 The Ministry of Time
By Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#11 Circe
By Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book

#13 Blue Sisters
By Coco Mellors (Ballantine Books)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#14 One Golden Summer
By Carley Fortune (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#15 Iron Flame
By Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

#1 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $12 / Get the Book

#2 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#3 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book

#4 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#5 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#6 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book

#7 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#8 The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By Zoë Schlanger (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
By Michelle Zauner (Vintage)
Price: $17 / Get the Book

#10 No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
By Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

#11 The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
By Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#12 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
By Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#13 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
By Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen)
Price: $12.95 / Get the Book

#14 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / Get the Book

#15 Man's Search for Meaning
By Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
Price: $16 / Get the Book

Mass Market Paperbacks

#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#2 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#3 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#4 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 Rhythm of War
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#9 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#10 The Silmarillion
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

Children’s Illustrated

#1 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#2 Will the Pigeon Graduate?
By Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#3 Oh, the Places You'll Go!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#4 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#5 Papa's Coming Home
By Chasten Buttigieg, Dan Taylor (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#6 Odder: An Otter's Story
By Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.) (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#7 Knight Owl
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#8 Good Night Mountains
By Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper (Good Night Books)
Price: $9.95 / Get the Book

#9 The Bakery Dragon
By Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#10 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

Children’s Interest

#1 A Wolf Called Fire
By Rosanne Parry (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#4 Swim School: A Bluey Storybook
By (Penguin Young Readers)
Price: $5.99 / Get the Book

#5 Better Than the Movies
By Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#6 Let Them Stare
By Jonathan Van Ness, Julie Murphy (Storytide)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Grace Lin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#9 A Wrinkle in Time
By Madeleine L'Engle (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#10 Away
By Megan E. Freeman (Aladdin)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

Children’s Series Titles

#1 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book

#2 Dog Man Unleashed
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#3 The Hunger Games: Deluxe Edition
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book

#4 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Wild Robot Escapes
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#6 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Wild Robot Protects
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

#8 Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#9 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
By Holly Jackson (Delacorte Press)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#10 Dog Man
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book