Regional Bestsellers

 

The bestselling titles in the Reading the West region, for the week ended Sunday, November 2, based on reporting from the bookstores in the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.

Hardcover Fiction

#1 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#2 The Everlasting
By Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#3 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#4 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#5 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#6 Tom's Crossing
By Mark Z. Danielewski (Pantheon)
Price: $40 / Get the Book

#7 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book

#8 Twice
By Mitch Albom (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Impossible Fortune
By Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#10 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#11 Wreck
By Catherine Newman (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book

#12 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#13 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#14 A Guardian and a Thief
By Megha Majumdar (Knopf)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

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

Hardcover Nonfiction

#1 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#2 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book

#3 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

#4 Dead and Alive: Essays
By Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

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

#6 Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
Price: $29 / Get the Book

#7 107 Days
By Kamala Harris (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#8 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

#9 Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
By Brené Brown (Random House)
Price: $32 / Get the Book

#10 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

#11 Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
By Joyce Vance (Dutton)
Price: $28 / Get the Book

#12 Finding My Way: A Memoir
By Malala Yousafzai (Atria Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book

#13 The Uncool: A Memoir
By Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $35 / Get the Book

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

#15 Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book

Trade Paperback Fiction

#1 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book

#2 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

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

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

#5 Mate
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book

#6 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#7 The Best American Short Stories 2025
By Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#8 You Better Be Lightning
By Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

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

#10 Strange Houses
By Uketsu, Jim Rion (Transl.) (HarperVia)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book

#11 Good Spirits
By B. K. Borison (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#12 When the Cranes Fly South
By Lisa Ridzén (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#13 Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By Kirsten Miller (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#14 All the Light We Cannot See
By Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

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

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

#1 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#2 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / Get the Book

#3 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

#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 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

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

#7 Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By Oliver Burkeman (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#8 The Best American Essays 2025
By Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#9 A Philosophy of Walking
By Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book

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

#11 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book

#12 Meditations
By Marcus Aurelius (Modern Library)
Price: $11 / Get the Book

#13 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
By Anne Applebaum (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book

#14 Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
By Lulu Miller (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19 / Get the Book

#15 The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
By Susan Orlean, Jaime Green (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

Mass Market Paperbacks

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

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

#3 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#4 Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton (Ballantine)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

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

#6 And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie (Morrow)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

#7 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book

#8 Siddhartha
By Hermann Hesse (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / 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 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#3 Room on the Broom
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book

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

#5 If We Were Dogs
By Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#6 The Wild Robot on the Island
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

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

#8 Butt or Face? Volume 3: Super Gross Butts
By Kari Lavelle (Sourcebooks Explore)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

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

#10 Little Blue Truck
By Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.) (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

Children’s Interest

#1 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book

#2 Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
By Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $13.99 / Get the Book

#3 Howl's Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition
By Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book

#4 Dragonborn
By Struan Murray (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#5 From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
By Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro (Disney Hyperion)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book

#6 Never Ever After
By Sue Lynn Tan (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#7 Pax
By Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book

#8 We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#9 The Outsiders
By S. E. Hinton (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

#10 Winging It: A Graphic Novel
By Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book

Children’s Series Titles

#1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#2 The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
By Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book

#3 Twilight (20th Anniversary Edition) (The Twilight Saga #1)
By Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book

#4 Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
By Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book

#5 The Princess in Black
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

#6 Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #18) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
By Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#7 Lightlark (The Lightlark Saga Book 1)
By Alex Aster (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#8 I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #12)
By Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book

#9 I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 (I Survived, #25)
By Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book

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