This week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers in fiction reflect sales tallied across hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, with figures generously supplied by the American Booksellers Association. The list has been assembled, laid out, and circulated by The Independent Publishers Caucus.
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1. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
2. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver (Crooked Lane Books)
3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
4. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W.W. Norton)
5. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Parry (Transit)
6. Stitched by Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)
7. John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
8. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
9. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
10. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
11. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press)
12. Stoner by John Williams (NYRB Classics)
13. Dark Reading Matter: The Last Thursday Next Novel (A Thursday Next Novel #8) by Jasper Fforde (Soho Press)
14. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson (Slowburn)
15. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
16. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
17. Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
18. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
19. Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone)
20. The Iliad by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W. W. Norton)
21. Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido (NYRB)
22. F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics by Liz Gotauco, Jade Gotauco (Illus.) (W. W. Norton)
23. Fair Ones: A Double Novel by Lydia Millet (W. W. Norton)
24. We by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf)
25. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
26. The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett (Graywolf)
27. Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (Melville House)
28. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.) (New Directions)
29. Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel by Shuang-zi Yang (Graywolf Press)
30. Up to No Good: The Complete Elderly Lady Stories by Helene Tursten (Soho Crime)
31. Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (David R. Godine Publisher)
32. Lights Out (Into Darkness Series #1) by Navessa Allen (Slowburn)
33. Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan (Grove)
34. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
35. London Station: A Novel by David McCloskey (W. W. Norton)
36. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (W. W. Norton)
37. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
38. The Overstory by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)
39. Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman (Coffee House Press)
40. Night of a Thousand Hells by Intan Paramaditha (Europa)
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