Posted on March 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM 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 15, 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. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
9. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
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. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade
6. On Democracy by Walt Whitman
7. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins
8. Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
9. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
10. Stuff Every Bird Lover Should Know by Alice Sun
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