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. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
5. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
6. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
7. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
8. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
9. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
10. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
11. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
12. The Library of Amorlin: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Age of Beasts #1) by Kalyn Josephson (Erewhon Books)
13. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
14. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
15. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
16. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
17. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
18. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
19. Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls (Seven Stories Press)
20. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
21. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
22. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
23. 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen (Grove Press)
24. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
25. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
26. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
27. The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (One More Chapter)
28. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
29. The Resurrectionist: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
30. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
31. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
32. Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart (Kensington)
33. When the Museum is Closed by Emi Yagi (Soft Skull)
34. Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House #1) by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
35. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
36. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.) (Nightboat Books)
37. Wuthering Heights (Word Cloud Classics) by Emily Brontë (Canterbury Classics)
38. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
39. North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Strange Object)
40. The Hitch by Sara Levine (Roxane Gay Books)

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