Independent press bestsellers: March 12, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending March 8, 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. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson 

7. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

8. The Library of Amorlin by Kalyn Josephson 

9. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

10. Foster by Claire Keegan

NONFICTION

1. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

3. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit 

4. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams 

5. On Democracy by Walt Whitman

6. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade 

7. Guinness World Records 2026

8. Mutual Aid by Dean Spade 

9. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins

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