Posted on April 2, 2026 at 8:29 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 29, 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. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
8. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
9. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower
10. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
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. Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan
8. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
9. Guinness World Records 2026
10. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins
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