Posted on April 30, 2026 at 2:00 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 April 26, 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. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), written by Solvej Balle and translated by Barbara J. Haveland
4. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV), written by Solvej Balle and translated by Barbara J. Haveland
5. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
6. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
7. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
8. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
9. Love Overboard by Kandi Steiner
10. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
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. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade
5. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams
6. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
7. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
8. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros
9. I'm Just a Little Guy by Charlie James and Paige Tompkins
10. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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