Independent press bestsellers: January 29, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending January 25, 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. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson 

8. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller 

9. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

10. The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty

NONFICTION

1. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

3. Mutual Aid by Dean Spade 

4. Guinness World Records 2026

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

6. We the People by Jill Lepore 

7. One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson

8. Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes

9. Winter by Val McDermid 

10. A Philosophy of Walking, written by Frédéric Gros and translated by John Howe