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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending October 4, 2026

By Literary Hub | October 8, 2026

T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 8, 2026

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work

Kelly Marie Coyne Considers What’s Revealed By Plath’s Unpublished Poetry

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 7, 2026

Leah C. Stokes Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth with Bill McKibben

Leah C. Stokes Talks Activism, Democracy and the Struggle For the Earth with Bill McKibben

On the Long, Slow Process of Changing Climate Policy

By Bill McKibben | October 7, 2026

Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of <em>Interview with the Vampire</em> and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

How does an author’s mythology enter the collective consciousness?

By Leigh Bardugo | October 7, 2026

Trans Becoming and the Failure of Language

Trans Becoming and the Failure of Language

“As trans people, each articulation of who we are is also an articulation of who we will no longer be.”

By Sanam Sheriff | October 7, 2026

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What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey | October 6, 2026

Why Barbara Kingsolver Writes Standing Up

By Barbara Kingsolver | October 6, 2026

Adam Wilson on Plot vs. “Concept” (and Why He’ll Never Write a Yankees Fan)

By Sam Axelrod | October 6, 2026

Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss

Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Fair Ones

By Jane Ciabattari | October 6, 2026

How a Lightning Strike Affected My Identity—And My Main Character’s

How a Lightning Strike Affected My Identity—And My Main Character’s

Nafissa Thompson-Spires on Being a Live Wire

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires | October 6, 2026

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!

Barbara Kingsolver, Lydia Millet, Patricia Lockwood, and more: 20 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 6, 2026

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

Emily Van Duyne Remembers the Organizer and Writer

By Emily Van Duyne | October 5, 2026

Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family

Revisiting an Unsung 100-Year-Old Novel From an Intellectual New York Family

On Reading Ettie Stettheimer’s Love Days

By Mabel Capability Taylor | October 5, 2026

We Banned the Soul from the Building: On AI, Spiritual Life, and Sustainable Practices for Writing

We Banned the Soul from the Building: On AI, Spiritual Life, and Sustainable Practices for Writing

“AI will improve, but it will never develop the capacity for genuine longing, grief.”

By Charlotte Donlon | October 5, 2026

9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room

9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room

Carla Vass Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith and More

By Carla Vass | October 5, 2026

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