Independent press bestsellers: May 7, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending May 3, 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. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

5. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV), written by Solvej Balle and translated by Barbara J. Haveland 

6. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

7. Molka by Monika Kim

8. The Throne of Broken Gods: Deluxe Special Edition by Amber V. Nicole

9. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II), written by Solvej Balle and translated by Barbara J. Haveland

10. Foster by Claire Keegan

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 Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

5. Mutual Aid (new and expanded edition) by Dean Spade 

6. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams 

7. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 

8. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros

9. Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

10. Maintenance of Everything by Stewart Brand