Posted on April 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending April 5, 2026.
You can see the full Independent Publishers Caucus top forty list for both fiction and nonfiction at Bookshop.org.
FICTION
1. Heart the Lover by Lily King
2. I Who Have Never Known Men, written by Jacqueline Harpman and translated by Ros Schwartz
3. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
4. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
5. Mona's Eyes, written by Thomas Schlesser and translated by Hildegarde Serle
6. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
7. Foster by Claire Keegan
8. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
9. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
10. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower
NONFICTION
1. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
4. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams
5. Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team by A.M. Gittlitz
6. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade
7. Guinness World Records 2026
8. Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan
9. On Democracy by Walt Whitman
10. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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