This week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers in fiction reflect sales tallied from hundreds of independent bookstores across the nation, graciously provided by the American Booksellers Association. The list is assembled, laid out, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus.
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- Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright)
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
- The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
- Guinness World Records 2027 by Guinness World Records
- The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
- Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
- With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig (W. W. Norton)
- I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)
- Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)
- The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
- Chasing the Headless Horseman: The History, Hijinks, and Halloweenes of the Real Sleepy Hollow by J.W. Ocker (Countryman Press)
- Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride by Katya Suvorova (Alcove Press)
- Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
- Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
- How to Survive Authoritarianism: A Russian’s Phrasebook for Everyday Life in America by Maria Kuznetsova, Dan Storyev (Liveright)
- Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu (Verso)
- Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
- Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
- A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
- The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
- A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
- Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
- This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
- Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control by Kelly Lytle Hernández (W. W. Norton)
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
- No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism by Jared Huffman (W. W. Norton)
- The Book of Genocides by Dana Mashoian Walrath (Harvard University Press)
- The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
- A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (The Experiment)
- S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
- Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era by Susan Neiman (W. W. Norton)
- Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza by Akbar Shahid Ahmed (W. W. Norton)
- How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
- Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
- How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World by Ethan Tapper (Broadleaf Books)
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
- The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
- Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart (Melville House)
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