Independent press bestsellers: June 4, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending May 31, 2026.

You can see the full Independent Publishers Caucus top forty list for both fiction and nonfiction at Bookshop.org.

FICTION

1. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett 

2. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

3. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

4. I Who Have Never Known Men, written by Jacqueline Harpman and translated by Ros Schwartz 

5. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

6. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), written by Solvej Balle and translated by Barbara J. Haveland 

7. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

8. Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang

9. Three Bags Full, written by Leonie Swann and translated by Anthea Bell

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

NONFICTION

1. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

3. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn 

4. Planet Money by Alex Mayyasi 

5. Incorruptible by Eric Ries

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

7. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit 

8. We the People by Jill Lepore 

9. A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski 

10. Talking Classics by Mary Beard