Posted on October 29, 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 25, 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. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
5. Stitched by Eli McCann
6. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
7. John of John by Douglas Stuart
8. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
9. Stoner by John Williams
10. Heart the Lover by Lily King
Nonfiction
1. Blockers by Michael Lewis
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
4. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
5. Guinness World Records 2027
6. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
7. Bogland by Merritt R. Turetsky
8. The Game by Peter King
9. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane
10. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
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