Posted on October 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM 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 18, 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. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
3. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
4. Stitched by Eli McCann
5. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
6. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
7. John of John by Douglas Stuart
8. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters
9. Heart the Lover by Lily King
10. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
Nonfiction
1. Blockers by Michael Lewis
2. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
5. Guinness World Records 2027
6. The Game by Peter King
7. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
8. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
9. Replaceable You by Mary Roach
10. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane
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