Independent press bestsellers: July 2, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending June 28, 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. The Very Definition of Love by Sophia Benoit 

10. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

NONFICTION

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

2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

3. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane 

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

5. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

6. The Wreck of the Mentor by Eric Jay Dolin 

7. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

8. Too L.A. by Eve Babitz 

9. The Fix by Barbara McQuade 

10. A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski