Regional Bestsellers
The bestselling titles in the Reading the West region, for the week ended Sunday, December 14, based on reporting from the bookstores in the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
Hardcover Fiction
#1 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#2 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#3 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#4 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#6 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#8 Dog Show: Poems
By Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.) (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 Small Things Like These
By Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#11 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#13 Tailored Realities
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
By Kiran Desai (Hogarth)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#2 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
By Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#4 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 Bread of Angels: A Memoir
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#7 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#8 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
By John Fugelsang (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
By Christine Kuehn (Celadon Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#12 Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#13 Neurogiving: The Science of Donor Decision-Making
By Cherian Koshy (Wiley)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#14 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
#15 A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
By Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
Trade Paperback Fiction
#1 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#4 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#6 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 Isola
By Allegra Goodman (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#10 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 Circe
By Madeline Miller (Back Bay)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#13 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#14 The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition
By William Goldman (Harper Perennial)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#15 The Best American Short Stories 2025
By Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
#1 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#2 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / Get the Book
#4 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#6 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#7 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#8 How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By David Brooks (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#9 The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
By Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
Price: $24 / Get the Book
#10 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#11 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
By Susan Orlean, Jaime Green (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#13 Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By Oliver Burkeman (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#14 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#15 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
By Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
Mass Market Paperbacks
#1 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#2 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams (Del Rey)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#5 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#7 Foundation
By Isaac Asimov (Spectra)
Price: $10 / Get the Book
#8 Warbreaker
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#9 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#10 The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Illustrated
#1 The Christmas Sweater
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 If We Were Dogs
By Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 Knight Owl's Little Christmas
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#6 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Bakery Dragon
By Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Hansel and Gretel
By Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#9 Dragons Love Tacos
By Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Polar Express
By Chris Van Allsburg (HMH Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Interest
#1 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#2 Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Eyes and the Impossible
By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#5 A Wrinkle in Time
By Madeleine L'Engle (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
By Stephen Chbosky (Simon Pulse)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Wolf Called Wander
By Rosanne Parry (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Phantom Tollbooth
By Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Scammer
By Tiffany D. Jackson (Quill Tree Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Series Titles
#1 Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#3 Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 Spy School Blackout
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#8 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#9 We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#10 Sunrise on the Reaping: Collector's Gift Edition (The Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book