Independent press bestsellers: May 28, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending May 24, 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. I Who Have Never Known Men, written by Jacqueline Harpman and translated by Ros Schwartz 

4. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

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

6. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

7. Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang

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

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

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

NONFICTION

1. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

2. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

3. We the People by Jill Lepore 

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

5. The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit 

6. Another Kind of Freedom by Pema Chodron 

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

8. Money Unlocked by John Lee

9. Go the F*ck to College by Adam Mansbach

10. Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros