Independent press bestsellers: January 22, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending January 18, 2026.

You can see the full Independent Publishers Caucus top forty list for both fiction and nonfiction at Bookshop.org.

FICTION

1. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

2. I Who Have Never Known Men, written by Jacqueline Harpman and translated by Ros Schwartz 

3. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

4. Mona's Eyes, written by Thomas Schlesser and translated by Hildegarde Serle 

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

6. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine 

7. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller 

8. The Hitch by Sara Levine 

9. The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty 

10. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson 

NONFICTION

1. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

3. Mutual Aid by Dean Spade 

4. We the People by Jill Lepore 

5. Guinness World Records 2026

6. Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes

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

8. Winter by Val McDermid 

9. Stop, in the Name of God by Charlie Kirk 

10. The Constitution of the United States