Posted on September 3, 2026 at 8:09 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 30, 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. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
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. Stoner by John Williams
9. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower
10. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Nonfiction
1. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
4. Guinness World Records 2027
5. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane
6. No Prophets by Jared Huffman
7. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
8. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
9. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
10. This Is the Plan by Ben Wikler
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