Posted on September 24, 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 20, 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. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
4. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
5. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters
6. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
7. John of John by Douglas Stuart
8. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
9. Heart the Lover by Lily King
10. Stitched by Eli McCann
Nonfiction
1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
2. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
3. Live Laugh Love by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
6. Guinness World Records 2027
7. Replaceable You by Mary Roach
8. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
9. Call It Evil by Susan Neiman
10. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan
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