Posted on November 13, 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 November 8, 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. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
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. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
9. Heart the Lover by Lily King
10. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
Nonfiction
1. Blockers by Michael Lewis
2. The Gales of November (paperback) by John U. Bacon
3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
5. Guinness World Records 2027
6. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
7. Dispatches from Rural America by Wendell Berry
8. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane
9. Bogland by Merritt R. Turetsky
10. The Gales of November (hardcover) by John U. Bacon
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