Independent press bestsellers: July 30, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending July 26, 2026.

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

FICTION

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

2. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett 

3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

4. The Iliad, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

5. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

6. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

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

8. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

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

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

Nonfiction

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

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

3. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

4. This Is the Plan by Ben Wikler

5. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane 

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

7. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian 

8. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

9. The Wreck of the Mentor by Eric Jay Dolin 

10. The Glorians by Terry Tempest Williams