Regional Bestsellers
The bestselling titles in the Reading the West region, for the week ended Sunday, October 11, based on reporting from the bookstores in the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
Hardcover Fiction
#1 A Court of Splintered Harmony: The Valkyrie Cycle, Movement I (A Court of Thorns and Roses #6)
By Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#2 The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#3 Miss Wolcott's Ghost (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #21)
By Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#4 Peck & Peck
By Bonnie Garmus (Scribner)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#5 A Married Little Christmas (Deluxe Edition)
By Abby Jimenez (Forever)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#6 The Pirate Queen
By Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#7 The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
By Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#8 Whistler
By Ann Patchett (Harper)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 Exit Party
By Emily St.John Mandel (Knopf)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#10 American Hagwon
By Min Jin Lee (Cardinal)
Price: $36 / Get the Book
#11 Theo of Golden: Deluxe Edition
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#12 Public Access Afterworld
By Jane Schoenbrun (Hogarth)
Price: $33 / Get the Book
#13 Partita
By Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 Hollywood, Ending
By John Green (Dutton Books)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#15 Mad Mabel
By Sally Hepworth (St. Martin's Press)
Price: $29 / Get the Book
Hardcover Nonfiction
#1 Simply Ina: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
By Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)
Price: $40 / Get the Book
#2 Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
By Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Company)
Price: $29.99 / Get the Book
#3 The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $34 / Get the Book
#4 Abandoning a Cat: A Personal Story
By Haruki Murakami, Phillip Gabriel (Trans.) (Knopf)
Price: $26 / Get the Book
#5 The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
By Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
Price: $38 / Get the Book
#6 What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast
By Caroline Chambers (Union Square & Co.)
Price: $35 / Get the Book
#7 Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World
By Adam Grant (Viking)
Price: $33 / Get the Book
#8 The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
By Gil Durán (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)
Price: $30 / Get the Book
#9 The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis
By Devin Thomas O'Shea (Haymarket Books)
Price: $29.95 / Get the Book
#10 Guinness World Records 2027
By Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
Price: $29.95 / Get the Book
#11 What If Anger Is the Answer?: A Harvard Marine's Guide to Shaping Aggression
By Mike LeBlanc (Matt Holt Books)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
#12 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
#13 End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
By Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Price: $32 / Get the Book
#14 Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
By Mac Barnett (Little, Brown and Company)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#15 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Price: $28 / Get the Book
Trade Paperback Fiction
#1 Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi (Atria Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#2 Dungeon Crawler Carl
By Matt Dinniman (Ace)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#3 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
By Beth Brower (Penguin Books)
Price: $15 / Get the Book
#4 East of Eden
By John Steinbeck (Penguin)
Price: $25 / Get the Book
#5 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2
By Beth Brower (Penguin Books)
Price: $15 / Get the Book
#6 Christmas Staycation (Deluxe Edition) (How My Neighbor Stole Christmas)
By Meghan Quinn (Bloom Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Frozen River
By Ariel Lawhon (Vintage)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#9 Stitched
By Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)
Price: $18.95 / Get the Book
#10 The Road to Tender Hearts
By Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#11 Red Rising
By Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
Price: $18 / Get the Book
#12 Fruit Fly
By Josh Silver (Crooked Lane Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#13 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7
By Beth Brower (Penguin Books)
Price: $21 / Get the Book
#14 The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
By Beth Brower (Penguin Books)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#15 Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir (Ballantine Books)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
#1 The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By John U. Bacon (Liveright)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#2 All About Love: New Visions
By bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#3 Meditations: A New Translation
By Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (Trans.) (Modern Library)
Price: $11 / Get the Book
#4 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By M.D. van der Kolk, Bessel (Penguin Books)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#5 Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
By Cory Doctorow (Picador)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#6 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: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
By Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
Price: $24 / Get the Book
#8 On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.) (Ten Speed Graphic)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#9 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
Price: $22 / Get the Book
#10 Best of the Wurst: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Wisconsin Sausage
By Jesse Brookstein (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
Price: $32.95 / Get the Book
#11 The Best American Essays 2026
By Masha Gessen, Kim Dana Kupperman (Mariner Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#12 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By John Green (Dutton)
Price: $20 / Get the Book
#13 Salt
By Mark Kurlansky (Penguin)
Price: $19 / Get the Book
#14 A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Price: $23.99 / Get the Book
#15 Healing After Loss
By Martha W. Hickman (Morrow)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
Mass Market Paperbacks
#1 Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut (Dell)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#2 1984
By George Orwell (Signet)
Price: $12 / Get the Book
#3 Dune Messiah
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#5 Mistborn: The Final Empire
By Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#6 Dune
By Frank Herbert (Ace)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968
By Keith Nolan (Presidio Press)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#9 Delorme Atlas & Gazetteer: Minnesota
By Rand McNally (Delorme Mapping Company)
Price: $29.95 / Get the Book
#10 The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas (Bantam )
Price: $7.95 / Get the Book
Children’s Illustrated
#1 EXTRAordinary! A Little EXTRA to Reach BIG Dreams
By Caitlin Clark, Adriana Predoi (Illus.) (Random House Books for Young Readers)
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 Don't Trust Fish
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#4 The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Thanksgiving
By Eric Carle, Eric Carle (Illus.) (World of Eric Carle)
Price: $9.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Monster at the End of this Book
By Jon Stone, Michael Smollin (Illus.) (Golden Books)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
#6 The Going to Bed Book
By Sandra Boynton (Boynton Bookworks)
Price: $6.99 / Get the Book
#7 The Skeleton and the Cat
By Brandon James Scott (HarperCollins)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#8 Help! I'm Being Eaten by a Bear!
By Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.) (Dial Books)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#9 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?: Stamped Edges Special Edition
By Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.) (Henry Holt and Co. BYR)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#10 It's Thanksgiving, Curious George!: With Foldout Flaps!
By H.A. Rey (Clarion Books)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Interest
#1 A Conspiracy of Charming Monsters: Illustrated Tales from Elfhame (The Folk of the Air)
By Holly Black, Songer (Frostbite Studios), Solenne (Illus.) (Alvina Ling Books)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#2 Licorice
By Kara LaReau, Kelly Murphy (Illus.) (Scholastic Press)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#3 The Last King of Faerie: A Shadowhunters Novel (The Wicked Powers #1)
By Cassandra Clare (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $28.99 / Get the Book
#4 It's Christmas Crime!: An Advent Romance
By Anouk Filippini (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $22.99 / Get the Book
#5 The Sixth Faction Deluxe Limited Edition (A New Divergent Series #1)
By Veronica Roth (HarperCollins)
Price: $25.99 / Get the Book
#6 This Is a Door
By Daniel Nayeri (Stonefruit Studio)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#7 Flight: A Story of Seeking Refuge
By Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press)
Price: $10.99 / Get the Book
#8 The Pools
By E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press)
Price: $20.99 / Get the Book
#9 Scholastic Book of World Records 2027
By Scholastic (Scholastic Inc.)
Price: $14.99 / Get the Book
#10 Dogtown
By Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.) (Square Fish)
Price: $8.99 / Get the Book
Children’s Series Titles
#1 Dog Man: A Sprinkle in Time: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #15)
By Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#2 Fight or Flight (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #21)
By Jeff Kinney (Harry N. Abrams)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#3 Baby-sitters on Board!: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club Super Special #1)
By Raina Telgemeier (Illus.) (Graphix)
Price: $16.99 / Get the Book
#4 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
Price: $17.99 / Get the Book
#5 Wildwood (The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I)
By Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis (Illus.) (Balzer + Bray)
Price: $11.99 / Get the Book
#6 Spy School Goes East
By Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Price: $18.99 / Get the Book
#7 Dangerous Impulses (Standard Edition) (The Naturals #5)
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Price: $21.99 / Get the Book
#8 Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)
By Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
Price: $15.99 / Get the Book
#9 The Neverfear (Impossible Creatures #3)
By Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.) (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Price: $19.99 / Get the Book
#10 InvestiGators: Weather or Not
By John Patrick Green (First Second)
Price: $12.99 / Get the Book