The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

For the week ending February 15, 2026

By Literary Hub | February 19, 2026

How the Feeble Human Biped Came to Dominate the Natural World

How the Feeble Human Biped Came to Dominate the Natural World

Roland Ennos on the Anthropological Explanations Behind Homo Sapiens Rise to the Top of the Animal Kingdom

By Roland Ennos | February 18, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: This is Our<br> Fight Response

Letter From Minnesota: This is Our
Fight Response

Susan Raffo on Holding Space For Humility in the Midst of Radical Change

By Susan Raffo | February 18, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: When Men With Guns Enter the Neighborhood

Letter From Minnesota: When Men With Guns Enter the Neighborhood

Sahra Noor on Finding Unwanted Echoes of Mogadishu
in Present-Day Minneapolis

By Sahra Noor | February 18, 2026

The Myth of the Red-Lipped Suffragette

The Myth of the Red-Lipped Suffragette

Eileen G’Sell on “Femvertising” and Fashion as Feminism

By Eileen G'Sell | February 18, 2026

Letter From Minnesota: “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns.”

Letter From Minnesota: “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns.”

Andrea Jenkins on the Violent Echoes of Reconstruction
in the Streets of the Twin Cities

By Andrea Jenkins | February 18, 2026

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime

By Emily Galvin Almanza | February 18, 2026

Why I Wrote a Middle Grade Book About Religion

By Huda Al-Marashi | February 18, 2026

On Dancing As Rebellion and The Problem of Embodiment

By Sarah Domet | February 18, 2026

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement

Kimberley Kinder Considers the Blind Spots and Biases of Traditional Travel Narratives

By Kimberley Kinder | February 18, 2026

The Shared Responsibility of Public Health

The Shared Responsibility of Public Health

Monica L. Wang on the Collective Action Necessary to Create a Healthier World

By Monica L. Wang | February 18, 2026

Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers.

Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers.

By James Folta | February 17, 2026

Not-so-happy 100th birthday to Ireland’s Committee of Evil Literature.

Not-so-happy 100th birthday to Ireland’s Committee of Evil Literature.

By Brittany Allen | February 17, 2026

Namwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a Critic

Namwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a Critic

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of On Morrison

By Jane Ciabattari | February 17, 2026

Bombing in the Breadline: A Day in the Life of the Average Gazan

Bombing in the Breadline: A Day in the Life of the Average Gazan

Ali Abu-Zayed Recounts His Experiences and Those of Others Enduring Starvation, Displacement and Genocide

By Ali Abu-Zayed | February 17, 2026

Letter from Minnesota: The Season of Los Helados

Letter from Minnesota: The Season of Los Helados

Gabriela Spears-Rico on the All-Too-Familiar Brutality of ICE

By Gabriela Spears-Rico | February 17, 2026

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