Posted on October 8, 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 October 4, 2026.
You can see the full Independent Publishers Caucus top forty list for both fiction and nonfiction at Bookshop.org.
1. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
2. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
4. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
5. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
6. John of John by Douglas Stuart
7. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
8. Stitched by Eli McCann
9. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters
10. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
Nonfiction
1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
4. Guinness World Records 2027
5. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
6. Live Laugh Love by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
7. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
8. With Her Own Hands by Nicole Nehrig
9. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan
10. Replaceable You by Mary Roach
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