Posted on March 5, 2026 at 7:40 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 March 1, 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. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
6. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
7. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
8. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
9. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
10. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
NONFICTION
1. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. On Democracy by Walt Whitman
4. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
5. Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
6. Guinness World Records 2026
7. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin
8. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins
9. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
10. The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin
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