Independent press bestsellers: June 11, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending June 7, 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. I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney 

8. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

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

10. Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang

NONFICTION 

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

2. The Fix by Barbara McQuade 

3. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

4. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

5. The Wreck of the Mentor by Eric Jay Dolin 

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

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

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

9. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit 

10. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl