Independent press bestsellers: June 25, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending June 21, 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. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

6. Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang

7. Harvest Season by Brynne Weaver 

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

9. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

10. I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney 

NONFICTION

1. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane 

2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

4. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer 

5. The Wreck of the Mentor by Eric Jay Dolin 

6. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane 

7. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

8. The Fix by Barbara McQuade 

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

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