The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending April 5, 2026
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. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
7. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
8. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
9. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
10. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
11. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
12. Rain of Shadows and Endings: Deluxe Special Edition (The Legacy #1) by Melissa K. Roehrich (Kensington)
13. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
14. The Eyes Are the Best Part: Deluxe Limited Edition by Monika Kim (Erewhon Books)
15. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
16. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
17. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
18. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
19. The Dreadfuls: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A.Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
20. Just This Once: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Kings #1) by Lena Hendrix (Kensington)
21. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck (Strange Violin Editions)
22. The Library of Amorlin: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Age of Beasts #1) by Kalyn Josephson (Erewhon Books)
23. Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls (Seven Stories Press)
24. The Fourth Wife by Linda Hamilton (Kensington)
25. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
26. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
27. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
28. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
29. 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen (Grove Press)
30. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
31. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
32. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
33. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.) (Nightboat Books)
34. The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Paris by Mark Pryor (Kensington)
35. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
36. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
37. The Resurrectionist: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
38. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Grove Press)
39. Three Bags Full (A Sheep Detective Story) by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
40. Cinder Vale (Book 3 in the Sins of the Zodiac series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti (King’s Hollow)
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