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The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List, as brought to you by the ABA and GLIBA, for the week of May 21, 2023. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. For an independent GLIBA bookstore near you, visit here.


FICTION HARDCOVER
1. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $27, 9780593441275
2. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32, 9780802162175
3. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345
4. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks, R. Sikoryak (Illus.), Knopf, $32.50, 9780525655596
5. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201
7. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, Morrow, $30, 9780063250833
8. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780399562969
9. Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane, Harper, $30, 9780062129482
10. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042
11. Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $28, 9780399590948
12. Simply Lies
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $30, 9781538750636
13. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
14. Only the Dead
Jack Carr, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, $29.99, 9781982181697
15. Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano, The Dial Press, $28, 9780593243732
FICTION PAPERBACK
1. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
2. Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $18, 9780593438558
3. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
5. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab, Tor, $19.99, 9780765387578
6. The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $17.99, 9781501171352
7. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
8. It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781501110368
9. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173
10. One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle, Atria, $17.99, 9781982166809
11. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17, 9780593598429
12. Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
Renée Rosen, Berkley, $17, 9780593335666
13. The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $18.99, 9780063003064
14. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17, 9781501161933
15. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318

​NONFICTION HARDCOVER  
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
2. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
3. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $28, 9780593239919
4. King: A Life
Jonathan Eig, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35, 9780374279295
5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
6. Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself
Luke Russert, Harper Horizon, $28.99, 9780785291817
7. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan, Viking, $30, 9780735225268
8. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
Andrew McCarthy, Grand Central, $28, 9781538709207
9. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
Admiral William H. McRaven, Grand Central, $25, 9781538707944
10. You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie Smith, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28, 9781982185855
11. The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up
Andy Cohen, Henry Holt and Co., $29.99, 9781250890924
12. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.5, 9780593237465
13. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
14. Spare
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Random House, $36, 9780593593806
15. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Katie Holten, Tin House Books, $29.95, 9781953534682
NONFICTION PAPERBACK 
1. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
2. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $17, 9780307742483
3. Quietly Hostile: Essays
Samantha Irby, Vintage, $17, 9780593315699
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
6. Birds of Michigan Field Guide
Stan Tekiela, Adventure Publications, $14.95, 9781591939009
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers, Crown, $18, 9780593139028
9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow, Picador, $25, 9781250858801
10. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $18, 9780553447453
11. OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797219905
12. How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 29 Wild, Edible Mushrooms
Frank Hyman, Storey Publishing, $16.99, 9781635863321
13. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson, Vintage, $18, 9780375725609
14. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande, Picador, $17.99, 9781250076229
15. The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College
Harlan Cohen, Sourcebooks, $18.99, 9781492645962

MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
5. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
MASS MARKET
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803
7. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977
8. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345538987
9. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
10. The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318572

YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE 
1. The One and Only Ruby
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063080089
2. From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368081153
3. Warrior Girl Unearthed
Angeline Boulley, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $19.99, 9781250766588
4. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781665921312
5. School Trip: A Graphic Novel
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $14.99, 9780062885531
6. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich (A Graphic Novel)
Deya Muniz, Little, Brown Ink, $17.99, 9780316538725
7. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
8. Big Tree
Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, $32.99, 9781338180633
9. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781524764203
10. Painted Devils
Margaret Owen, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $20.99, 9781250831163
CHILDREN'S SERIES
1. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910
2. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
3. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402
4. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
5. Secrets and Sidekicks (Katie the Catsitter, #3)
Colleen AF Venable, Stephanie Yue (Illus.), Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593379721
6. An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! Volume 5
Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children, $16.99, 9781368072243
7. I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived Graphic Novel #7)
Lauren Tarshis, Cassie Anderson (Illus.), Graphix, $10.99, 9781338825152
8. Surprisingly Sarah (Emmie & Friends)
Terri Libenson, Balzer + Bray, $15.99, 9780063139213
9. An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
Mo Willems, Disney/Hyperion, $16.99, 9781484799673
10. The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani, Harper, $8.99, 9780062104908

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
4. Woo Hoo! You're Doing Great!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316486798
5. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $8.99, 9780358451228
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
6. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
7. Weather Together
Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665916981
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
9. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
10. Moo, Baa, La La La!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9780671449018

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