Independent press bestsellers: July 16, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending July 12, 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. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

4. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

5. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

6. Taiwan Travelogue, written by Shuang-zi Yang and translated by Lin King 

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

8. Harvest Season by Brynne Weaver 

9. We Were Forbidden, written by Jacqueline Harpman and translated by Ros Schwartz 

10. Six of Crows: A Darker Shore, Letters from Ketterdam by Leigh Bardugo 

Nonfiction

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

3. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane 

4. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer 

5. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian 

6. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane 

7. The Wreck of the Mentor by Eric Jay Dolin 

8. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

9. We the People by Jill Lepore 

10. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams