Independent press bestsellers: November 5, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending November 1, 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. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

7. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

8. Stoner by John Williams

9. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

10. The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty

Nonfiction 

1. Blockers by Michael Lewis

2. The Gales of November (paperback) by John U. Bacon  

3. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson

4. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

5. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore

6. Guinness World Records 2027 

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

8. The Gales of November (hardcover) by John U. Bacon  

9. The Game by Peter King

10. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane