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. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
5. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
6. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
7. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
8. The Hitch by Sara Levine (Roxane Gay Books)
9. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
10. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
11. Orbital by Samantha Harvey, (Grove Press)
12. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
13. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, (Grove Press)
14. Foster by Claire Keegan, (Grove Press)
15. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
16. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
17. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón, (Milkweed Editions)
18. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Limited Edition (Gods and Monsters #1) by Amber V. Nicole, (Kensington)
19. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
20. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
21. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
22. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
23. Winter Stories by Ingvild Rishøi (Grove Press)
24. North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Strange Object)
25. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
26. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
27. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
28. Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
29. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance That Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
30. Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards (Spiegel & Grau)
31. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger (Grove Press)
32. Monstrilio: A Novel by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (Zando)
33. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Lanternfish Press)
34. I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (Copper Canyon Press)
35. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
36. Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum (Europa Editions)
37. Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo, (Grove Press, Black Cat)
38. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Grove Press)
39. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
40. The Odyssey by Homer, (University of Chicago Press)

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