Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus.

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1. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press)
2. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
3. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
4. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
5. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
6. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
7. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
8. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
9. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
10. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
11. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
12. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
13. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
14. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
15. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
16. The Eyes Are the Best Part: Deluxe Limited Edition by Monika Kim (Erewhon Books)
17. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
18. Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage (Liveright)
19. Witch Hat Atelier 1 by Kamome Shirahama (Kodansha Comics)
20. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
21. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck (Strange Violin Editions)
22. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
23. Three Bags Full (A Sheep Detective Story) by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
24. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
25. Kill Dick by Luke Goebel (Red Hen Press)
26. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
27. The Library of Amorlin: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Age of Beasts #1) by Kalyn Josephson (Erewhon Books)
28. The Resurrectionist: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
29. Love & Other Monsters by Emily Franklin (David R. Godine Publisher)
30. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
31. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
32. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
33. Beartooth by Callan Wink (Spiegel & Grau)
34. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon)
35. Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry ed. by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon)
36. Just This Once: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Kings #1) by Lena Hendrix (Kensington)
37. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Limited Edition (Gods and Monsters #1) by Amber V. Nicole (Kensington)
38. Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics) by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (Canterbury Classics)
39. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.) (Nightboat Books)
40. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limón (Milkweed)

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