Independent press bestsellers: February 26, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending February 22, 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. Writers & Lovers by Lily King

7. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson 

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

9. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

10. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

NONFICTION

1. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

3. On Democracy by Walt Whitman

4. Mutual Aid by Dean Spade 

5. Guinness World Records 2026

6. The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin 

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

8. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin 

9. We the People by Jill Lepore 

10. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit