Posted on April 23, 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 April 19, 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. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
6. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
7. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
8. Foster by Claire Keegan
9. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
10. Mona's Eyes, written by Thomas Schlesser and translated by Hildegarde Serle
NONFICTION
1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
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. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
7. Another Kind of Freedom by Pema Chodron
8. On Democracy by Walt Whitman
9. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros
10. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins
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