40 Bestselling Fiction Titles from Independent Press

Here is this week’s Independent Press Top 40 list of fiction bestsellers, derived from sales reported by hundreds of independently owned bookstores nationwide, with data graciously supplied by the American Booksellers Association. The compilation, its formatting, and its dissemination are handled by The Independent Publishers Caucus.

*

1. The Calamity Club — Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
2. Fruit Fly — Josh Silver (Crooked Lane Books)
3. I Who Have Never Known Men — Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
4. May We Feed the King — Rebecca Parry (Transit)
5. Stitched — Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)
6. John of John — Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
7. The Odyssey — Homer; translated by Emily Wilson (W.W. Norton)
8. Stoner — John Williams (NYRB Classics)
9. The Poison Daughter — Sheila Masterson (Slowburn)
10. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Lives of Guinevere #1) — Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
11. I See You’ve Called in Dead — John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
12. Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
13. Heart the Lover — Lily King (Grove Press)
14. Sunburn — Chloe Michelle Howarth (Melville House)
15. Walk the Blue Fields — Claire Keegan (Grove)
16. The Birthing Tree — Amanda Peters (Catapult)
17. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) — Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.) (New Directions)
18. Victorian Psycho: A Novel — Virginia Feito (Liveright)
19. Of Karma and Corridors: A Dark Romance (Deluxe Limited Edition) — Sloane St James (Podium Publishing)
20. The Land in Winter — Andrew Miller (Europa)
21. A Short Stay in Hell — Steven L. Peck (Strange Violin Editions)
22. Sipsworth — Simon Van Booy (David R. Godine Publisher)
23. A Crimson Ridge Christmas: Deluxe Limited Edition — Elliott Rose (Kensington)
24. Slow Horses — Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
25. The Employees — Olga Ravn (New Directions)
26. Rottenheart — Kat Dunn (Zando)
27. Lights Out (Into Darkness Series #1) — Navessa Allen (Slowburn)
28. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 — Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
29. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula — Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
30. Writers & Lovers — Lily King (Grove Press)
31. The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 8 — Mokumokuren (Yen Press)
32. Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror — Jeneva Rose (Blackstone)
33. F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics — Liz Gotauco, Jade Gotauco (Illus.) (W. W. Norton)
34. The Iliad — Homer; translated by Emily Wilson (W. W. Norton)
35. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 — Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
36. Fair Ones: A Double Novel — Lydia Millet (W. W. Norton)
37. The Berry Pickers — Amanda Peters (Catapult)
38. Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel — Shuang-zi Yang (Graywolf Press)
39. The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition — Robert W. Chambers (Pushkin Press)
40. Up to No Good: The Complete Elderly Lady Stories — Helene Tursten (Soho Crime)

_________________________________________