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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
For the week ending May 17, 2026
By
Literary Hub
| May 21, 2026
Christian B. Miller on The Honesty Crisis
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
By
Fiction Non Fiction
| May 21, 2026
How George Saunders’s Analysis of Russian Masters Provides a Critical Language for Audio Narratives
Sarah Montague Applies
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
to Seminal Radio Works
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Sarah Montague
| May 20, 2026
Strange, Mysterious and Beautiful: Rachel Mills Recommends Essential Novels of Sisterhood
Featuring Work by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Mary Lyn Bracht, Abigail Bergstrom and More
By
Rachel Mills
| May 20, 2026
Why, As Writers, Do We Cut the Things We Love?
Kayla Rae Whitaker on the “Animal Data” That Makes Up a Good Story
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Kayla Rae Whitaker
| May 20, 2026
The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days)
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| May 19, 2026
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Julia Hass
| May 19, 2026
Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader
Anton Hur Discusses the Future of Literary Translation
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Anton Hur
| May 18, 2026
Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention
Katherine Kelaidis on the Russian Writers Defying Putin's Regime from Abroad
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Katherine Kelaidis
| May 18, 2026
Navigating the Coming-of-Illness Narrative
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| May 18, 2026
Who Are You Stacey Levine? What Happens When a “Deeply Weird,” (Very) Small Press Novel is a Pulitzer Finalist
Max Pearl Gets to Know the Author of
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| May 15, 2026
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On the Road to Canterbury Reading Dan Simmons Sci-Fi Adaptation of Chaucer’s Classic
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| May 15, 2026
Five Books For the Insomniac in Your Life
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Ailsa Ross
| May 15, 2026
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