Regional Bestsellers
The bestselling titles in the Reading the West region, for the week ended Sunday, September 21, based on reporting from the bookstores in the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
Hardcover Fiction
#1 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#2 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#3 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans (Crown)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#5 Among the Burning Flowers
By Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Wedding People
By Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#7 Wild Reverence
By Rebecca Ross (Saturday Books)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#8 The Shattering Peace
By John Scalzi (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#9 James
By Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#10 The Academy
By Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Buckeye
By Patrick Ryan (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#13 The Wilderness
By Angela Flournoy (Mariner Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 Broken Country
By Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#2 All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
By Elizabeth Gilbert (Riverhead Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
By Mary Roach (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#4 Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#5 We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
By Jill Lepore (Liveright)
Price: $39.99 / Get the Book
#6 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#7 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#8 Abundance
By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / 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 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#11 History Matters
By David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#12 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
#13 The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
By Suleika Jaouad (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
By Robert B. Reich (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#15 Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy
By Randi Weingarten (Thesis)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
Trade Paperback Fiction
#1 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#2 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#4 The Life Impossible
By Matt Haig (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 The City and Its Uncertain Walls
By Haruki Murakami (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#6 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
By Sangu Mandanna (Berkley)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#9 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 Tell Me Everything
By Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#12 Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose
By Mary Oliver (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book
#13 All Fours
By Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#14 Go as a River
By Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
By Edward P. Jones (Ed.) (Vintage)
Price: $19 / 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 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#3 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#4 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
#5 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
By Anne Applebaum (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#6 How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
By Maria Ressa (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book
#8 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#9 America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
By Randall Balmer (Steerforth)
Price: $13.95 / Get the Book
#10 Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By Heather Cox Richardson (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
By Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
Price: $24 / Get the Book
#12 A Philosophy of Walking
By Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
Price: $19.95 / Get the Book
#13 Sociopath: A Memoir
By Patric Gagne, Ph.D. (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#14 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
#15 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / 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 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#4 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 A Game of Thrones
By George R.R. Martin (Random House Worlds)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#7 Foundation
By Isaac Asimov (Spectra)
Price: $10 / Get the Book
#8 Outlander
By Diana Gabaldon (Dell)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Long Walk
By Stephen King (Pocket)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#10 Hamlet
By William Shakespeare (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Illustrated
#1 Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#2 If We Were Dogs
By Sophie Blackall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 Room on the Broom
By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Butt or Face? Volume 3: Super Gross Butts
By Kari Lavelle (Sourcebooks Explore)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Bakery Dragon
By Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Ten Little Monsters
By Priddy Books (Priddy Books US)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You
By Sonia Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alcántara (Illus.) (Philomel Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Lois Ehlert (Illus.) (Little Simon)
Price: $7.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Interest
#1 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 Hekate: The Witch (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Nikita Gill (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Howl's Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition
By Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow Books)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
#5 Smile: A Graphic Novel
By Raina Telgemeier (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#6 Sisters in the Wind
By Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#8 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
#9 We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Outsiders
By S. E. Hinton (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Series Titles
#1 Fearful: A Powerless Story (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#2 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#3 InvestiGators: Case Files
By John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.) (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
By Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#6 Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 Six of Crows
By Leigh Bardugo (Square Fish)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#8 Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy)
By Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Awesome Friendly Series)
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#10 Scepter of Memories (Witchlings, #4)
By Claribel A. Ortega (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book