Posted on August 27, 2026 at 7:55 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 23, 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. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
4. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
5. John of John by Douglas Stuart
6. Heart the Lover by Lily King
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. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Nonfiction
1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
2. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
3. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane
4. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
5. No Prophets by Jared Huffman
6. This Is the Plan by Ben Wikler
7. The Success Lie by Chantell Preston
8. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer
9. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
10. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
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