This week’s lineup of the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers in fiction presents the titles that have moved most units across hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, with data graciously supplied by the American Booksellers Association. The list has been compiled, laid out, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus.
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1. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State by Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton)
2. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright)
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
4. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
5. Guinness World Records 2027 by Guinness World Records
6. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
7. Living in the Present with John Prine by Tom Piazza (W. W. Norton)
8. Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
9. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
10. Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women by Eleanor Johnson (Princeton University)
11. With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig (W. W. Norton)
12. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)
13. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
14. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
15. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
16. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
17. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
18. Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children by Stacey Patton (Beacon Press)
19. Chasing the Headless Horseman: The History, Hijinks, and Halloweens of the Real Sleepy Hollow by J.W. Ocker (Countryman Press)
20. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
21. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
22. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton)
23. How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World by Ethan Tapper (Broadleaf Books)
24. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
25. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
26. Requiem for Gaza by Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics)
27. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
28. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
29. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)
30. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (The Experiment)
31. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton Classics #129) by Anne Carson (Princeton University)
32. No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism by Jared Huffman (W. W. Norton)
33. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
34. Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart (Melville House)
35. How to Survive Authoritarianism: A Russian’s Phrasebook for Everyday Life in America by Maria Kuznetsova, Dan Storyev (Liveright)
36. There’s a Monster in the Lake: The World as a Fantastical Place by Laura Fernández (Graywolf Press)
37. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
38. The Book of Genocides by Dana Mashoian Walrath (Harvard University Press)
39. A Short History of the Gaza Strip by Anne Irfan (W. W. Norton)
40. California Inside Out: Mapping an Ecology of Mind by Obi Kaufmann (Heyday Books)
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