This week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers in fiction draw their strength from sales tallies reported by hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. The list has been prepared, 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 Game by Peter King (W. W. Norton)
7. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
8. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
9. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)
10. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
11. Living in the Present with John Prine by Tom Piazza (W. W. Norton)
12. Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life by Merritt R. Turetsky (W. W. Norton)
13. With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig (W. W. Norton)
14. Animals Taught Me Everything by Pam Houston (Torrey House Press)
15. Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
16. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
17. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)
18. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton Classics #129) by Anne Carson (Princeton University)
19. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
20. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
21. A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions: The Ideas and Technologies That Made Modernity Possible by John Elledge (The Experiment)
22. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
23. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton Classics #129) by Anne Carson (Princeton University)
24. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
25. Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart (Melville House)
26. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton)
27. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
28. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
29. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
30. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
31. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
32. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
33. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
34. How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World by Ethan Tapper (Broadleaf Books)
35. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (The Experiment)
36. How to Survive Authoritarianism: A Russian’s Phrasebook for Everyday Life in America by Maria Kuznetsova, Dan Storyev (Liveright)
37. A History of the World in Twelve Beans by Joël Broekaert (Greystone Books)
38. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
39. Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu (Verso)
40. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
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