Posted on September 17, 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 September 13, 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. Heart the Lover by Lily King
8. Stitched by Eli McCann
9. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
10. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
Nonfiction
1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
2. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
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. The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane
8. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan
9. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
10. The Salt Stones by Helen Whybrow
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