Independent press bestsellers: April 16, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending April 12, 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. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

6. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson 

7. Writers & Lovers by Lily King

8. Mona's Eyes, written by Thomas Schlesser and translated by Hildegarde Serle 

9. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

10. Foster by Claire Keegan

NONFICTION

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

3. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit 

4. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade 

5. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams 

6. Another Kind of Freedom by Pema Chodron

7. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins

8. Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan

9. On Democracy by Walt Whitman

10. Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team by A.M. Gittlitz