Regional Bestsellers
The bestselling titles in the Reading the West region, for the week ended Sunday, November 30, 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 The Secret of Secrets
By Dan Brown (Doubleday)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#3 Twice
By Mitch Albom (Harper)
Price: $26.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Black Wolf
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 Dog Show: Poems
By Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.) (Random House)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 The Widow
By John Grisham (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 Heart the Lover
By Lily King (Grove Press)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#8 Alchemised
By SenLinYu (Del Rey)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#10 I, Medusa
By Ayana Gray (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Katabasis
By R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#12 What We Can Know
By Ian McEwan (Knopf)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#13 Queen Esther
By John Irving (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#14 My Friends
By Fredrik Backman (Atria Books)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#15 Brimstone (Deluxe Limited Edition)
By Callie Hart (Forever)
Price: $33 / Get the Book
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1 Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
By Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life)
Price: $27 / Get the Book
#2 Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
By Samin Nosrat (Random House)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#3 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.) (Scribner)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#4 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
#5 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green (Crash Course Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#6 The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#7 Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
By Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#8 Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
By Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#9 Notes on Being a Man
By Scott Galloway (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
#10 Bread of Angels: A Memoir
By Patti Smith (Random House)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#11 Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
Price: $16.95 / 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 American Revolution: An Intimate History
By Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (Knopf)
Price: $80 / Get the Book
#14 Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
By Sean Sherman, Kate Nelson, Kristin Donnelly (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $45 / Get the Book
#15 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / 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 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#5 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 I Who Have Never Known Men
By Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
Price: $16.95 / Get the Book
#7 Martyr!
By Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#8 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 The Best American Short Stories 2025
By Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.) (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#10 Demon Copperhead
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#11 Intermezzo
By Sally Rooney (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#12 Lonesome Dove
By Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $24.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Lion Women of Tehran
By Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#14 Hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (Vintage)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#15 A Court of Thorns and Roses
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $19 / 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 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder (Crown)
Price: $14 / Get the Book
#3 The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
By Old Farmer's Almanac (Old Farmer's Almanac)
Price: $10.95 / Get the Book
#4 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
#5 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (Morrow)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#6 Fight Oligarchy
By Senator Bernie Sanders (Crown)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
By Matt Kracht (Chronicle)
Price: $15.95 / Get the Book
#8 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
#9 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann (Vintage)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#10 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By Michael Finkel (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#11 Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
By Oliver Burkeman (Picador)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#12 Solito: A Memoir
By Javier Zamora (Hogarth)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#13 The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
By Morgan Housel (Harriman House)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#14 I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#15 The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By Amy Tan (Knopf)
Price: $36 / 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: $12 / Get the Book
#3 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#4 A Game of Thrones
By George R.R. Martin (Random House Worlds)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Wise Man's Fear
By Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#7 Hyperion
By Dan Simmons (Spectra)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#8 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (Bantam)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#10 The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Illustrated
#1 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
By Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#2 The Humble Pie
By Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.) (HarperCollins)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Christmas Sweater
By Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#4 Knight Owl's Little Christmas
By Christopher Denise (Christy Ottaviano Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
By Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.) (Random House Studio)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $10.99 / 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 The Snowy Day
By Ezra Jack Keats (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 A Snow Day for Amos McGee
By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.) (Roaring Brook Press)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 Where's Waldo? The Search for Santa
By Martin Handford (Candlewick)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Interest
#1 Pocket Bear
By Katherine Applegate (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#2 War Games
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance
By Sophie Jomain (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#5 The House Saphir
By Marissa Meyer (Feiwel & Friends)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dragonborn
By Struan Murray (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Bletchley Riddle
By Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science)
By Kate McKinnon (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#9 Impossible Creatures
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Yearling)
Price: $11.99 / 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 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 (Amulet Books)
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 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 Wild Robot
By Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#6 We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#7 Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $27.99 / Get the Book
#8 Sunrise on the Reaping: Collector's Gift Edition (The Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $32.99 / Get the Book
#9 Dork Diaries 1 Full-Color Edition: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Dork Diaries Full-Color Editions #1)
By Rachel Renée Russell (Aladdin)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#10 Spy School Blackout
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book