Regional Bestsellers
The bestselling titles in the Reading the West region, for the week ended Sunday, November 9, 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 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#5 Katabasis
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#6 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#7 The Everlasting
By Alix E. Harrow (Tor Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#8 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#9 Queen Esther
By John Irving (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Shadow Ticket
By Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#12 Atmosphere
By Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Gone Before Goodbye
By Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon (Grand Central Publishing)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 Tom's Crossing
By Mark Z. Danielewski (Pantheon)
Price: $40 / Get the Book
#15 Wreck
By Catherine Newman (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1 Bread of Angels: A Memoir
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#2 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / 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 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#5 Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
By Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#6 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 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
#8 Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
By Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis (Penguin Press)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#9 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#10 Poems & Prayers
By Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#11 The Little Frog's Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
By Maybell Eequay (Summersdale)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#12 That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
By Elyse Myers (William Morrow)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#14 Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
By Mary Roach (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#15 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
Trade Paperback Fiction
#1 The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#2 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#3 Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 How About Now: Poems
By Kate Baer (Harper Perennial)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#5 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#6 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 The Housemaid
By Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Mighty Red
By Louise Erdrich (Harper Perennial)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 Strange Houses
By Uketsu, Jim Rion (Transl.) (HarperVia)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#11 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 Mate
By Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 Good Spirits
By B. K. Borison (Avon)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 All the Colors of the Dark
By Chris Whitaker (Crown)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman (Penguin)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
#1 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / 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 Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By Oliver Burkeman (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#4 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / 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 Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#7 The Best American Essays 2025
By Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#9 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
#10 A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle Books)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#11 On Freedom
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#12 Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
By Elyse Graham (Ecco)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#13 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#14 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / 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: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#3 A Game of Thrones
By George R.R. Martin (Random House Worlds)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 Animal Farm
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#5 The Well of Ascension
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 Children of Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book
#9 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#10 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Illustrated
#1 The Humble Pie
By Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#3 A Snow Day for Amos McGee
By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Goodnight Moon
By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Wild Robot on the Island
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
By Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 Dragons Love Tacos
By Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#9 How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
By Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Home: A Peek-Through Board Book
By Britta Teckentrup (Doubleday Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Interest
#1 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
#2 Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#3 What the River Knows
By Isabel Ibañez (Wednesday Books)
Price: $15 / Get the Book
#4 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
By Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell (Illus.) (Harper)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
By Stephen Chbosky (Simon Pulse)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dragonborn
By Struan Murray (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 No Sam! and the Meow of Deception
By Drew Daywalt, Mike Lowery (Illus.) (Storytide)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / 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 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 First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.) (HarperAlley)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Same Backward as Forward (Deluxe Limited Edition) (The Inheritance Games)
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#6 Twilight: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Twilight Saga)
By Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $40 / Get the Book
#7 The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $12.99 / 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