Independent press bestsellers: August 6, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending August 2, 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. The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson 

3. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

4. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

5. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

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

7. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower

8. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower

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

10. Taiwan Travelogue, written by Shuang-zi Yang and translated by Lin King 

Nonfiction

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

2. This Is the Plan by Ben Wikler

3. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

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

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. Talking Classics by Mary Beard

10. Hyperpolitics by Anton Jäger