The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

For the week ending February 1, 2026

By Literary Hub | February 5, 2026

Anjali Enjeti on Ballots and How Trump Wants to Steal Them

Anjali Enjeti on Ballots and How Trump Wants to Steal Them

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 5, 2026

Office Culture Follows Us Everywhere: Six Books About Work

Office Culture Follows Us Everywhere: Six Books About Work

Daniel Poppick Recommends Kathryn Scanlan, Vivian Gornick, Franz Kafka, and More

By Daniel Poppick | February 4, 2026

Geoff Dyer on Xiaolu Guo's A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS

Geoff Dyer on Xiaolu Guo's A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 4, 2026

Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America

Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America

Considering the Role of Blackness and Black Bodies in the American Literary Canon

By Toni Morrison | February 3, 2026

Borrowing From the Bard: A Shakespeare-Inspired Reading List

Borrowing From the Bard: A Shakespeare-Inspired Reading List

Rebecca Fallon Recommends Sally Rooney, Eleanor Catton, Emily St. John Mandel and More

By Rebecca Fallon | February 3, 2026

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • The Great Wherever
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

Writing is an Act of Faith, But Publishing is a Practice in Doubt

By Reena Shah | February 3, 2026

This Week in Literary History: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Was Published

By Literary Hub | February 2, 2026

Mars Rainfall, Death Monks, and Frankenstein Summer: February’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

By Natalie Zutter | February 2, 2026

Ten New Children’s Books That Embrace Joy and Celebrate Community

Ten New Children’s Books That Embrace Joy and Celebrate Community

Caroline Carlson Shares What Your Kids Should Read This February

By Caroline Carlson | February 2, 2026

An Enduring Source of Inspiration: In Search of Proust’s Legacy in Ireland

An Enduring Source of Inspiration: In Search of Proust’s Legacy in Ireland

Max McGuinness Explores the French Writer’s Influence on Generations of Irish Literature

By Max McGuinness | February 2, 2026

Robert Frost, Joni Mitchell, Picasso... 25 books out in paperback this February.

Robert Frost, Joni Mitchell, Picasso... 25 books out in paperback this February.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 2, 2026

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s <em>Berlin Shuffle</em>

Requiem for Weimar: On Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s Berlin Shuffle

Philip Boehm Considers the Contemporary Relevance of a Tale of 1920s Germany

By Philip Boehm | January 29, 2026

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

For Devin Thomas O’Shea, This is Pynchon’s USA and We’re Just Living In It

By Devin Thomas O’Shea | January 29, 2026

SI SI SI SI SI: On Fascist Passions in Mussolini’s Italy

SI SI SI SI SI: On Fascist Passions in Mussolini’s Italy

Tia Glista Considers Mussolini: Son of the Century and The Silver Book

By Tia Glista | January 29, 2026

Am I the Literary Asshole For Wanting My Friends to Shut Up About “Querying”?

Am I the Literary Asshole For Wanting My Friends to Shut Up About “Querying”?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | January 29, 2026

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