Posted on August 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending August 16, 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. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
4. John of John by Douglas Stuart
5. Heart the Lover by Lily King
6. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
7. The Butcher Legacy by Alaina Urquhart
8. Taiwan Travelogue, written by Shuang-zi Yang and translated by Lin King
9. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower
10. Stoner by John Williams
Nonfiction
1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
3. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
4. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane
5. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer
6. This Is the Plan by Ben Wikler
7. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
8. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
9. Triage by Claudia Rankine
10. The Salt Stones by Helen Whybrow
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