Posted on March 26, 2026 at 8:00 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 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. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
5. Mona's Eyes, written by Thomas Schlesser and translated by Hildegarde Serle
6. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
7. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
8. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
9. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
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. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade
5. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams
6. Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan
7. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins
8. Guinness World Records 2026
9. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin
10. On Democracy by Walt Whitman
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