Independent press bestsellers: May 14, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending May 10, 2026.

You can see the full Independent Publishers Caucus top forty list for both fiction and nonfiction at Bookshop.org.

FICTION

1. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett 

2. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

3. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

4. I Who Have Never Known Men, written by Jacqueline Harpman and translated by Ros Schwartz 

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

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

7. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

8. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower

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

10. Three Bags Full, written by Leonie Swann and translated by Anthea Bell

NONFICTION 

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

3. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

4. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit 

5. We the People by Jill Lepore 

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

7. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams 

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

9. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros

10. Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan