Posted on October 1, 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 27, 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. John of John by Douglas Stuart
5. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
6. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
7. Stitched by Eli McCann
8. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
9. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters
10. Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose
Nonfiction
1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
3. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
4. Live Laugh Love by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
5. The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
6. Guinness World Records 2027
7. Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane
8. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan
9. Replaceable You by Mary Roach
10. Forest Euphoria by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
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