Independent press bestsellers: September 10, 2026

Here are the ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction books from independent presses as sold by independent bookstores for the week ending September 6, 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 Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters

5. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

6. John of John by Douglas Stuart 

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

8. Heart the Lover by Lily King 

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

10. Stoner by John Williams

Nonfiction

1. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore

2. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson

3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

4. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon 

5. Guinness World Records 2027 

6. Replaceable You by Mary Roach

7. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane 

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

9. No Prophets by Jared Huffman

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