Independent press bestsellers: August 13, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending August 9, 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 Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower

7. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver

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

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

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

Nonfiction

1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

3. This Is the Plan by Ben Wikler

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

5. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane 

6. Triage by Claudia Rankine

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

8. Inner Propaganda by Owen Fitzpatrick

9. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian 

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