Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus.
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1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants — Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
2. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald — John U. Bacon (Liveright)
3. Is a River Alive? — Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
4. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss — Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
5. A Resistance History of the United States — Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
6. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy — Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
7. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature — Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
8. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
9. Triage — Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
10. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life — Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
11. A Philosophy of Walking — Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
12. Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
13. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) — Dean Spade (Verso)
14. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary — Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
15. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) — Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
16. Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization — Bill McKibben (W. W. Norton)
17. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) — Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
18. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses — Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
19. The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon (Grove)
20. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old — Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
21. Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico — Ted Genoways (W. W. Norton)
22. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats — Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
23. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail — Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
24. How to Relax: Hardcover Gift Edition — Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
25. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents — Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
26. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome — Mary Beard (Liveright)
27. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering — Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
28. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape — Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)
29. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America — Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
30. On Democracy (Library of America Broadsides #3) — Walt Whitman (Library of America)
31. How to Understand and Deal with ADHD: Everything You Need to Know — Charity O’Reilly, Tom O’Reilly (The Experiment)
32. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution — Jill Lepore (Liveright)
33. These Truths: A History of the United States — Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
34. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change — Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
35. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences — Anton Jäger (Verso)
36. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) — Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
37. A Philosophy of Shame — Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
38. The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and Reading — Ursula K. Le Guin (Shambhala)
39. Assata: An Autobiography — Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill Books)
40. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation — Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
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