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. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
6. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
7. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
8. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
9. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
10. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
11. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
12. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
13. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
14. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
15. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
16. The Eyes Are the Best Part: Deluxe Limited Edition by Monika Kim (Erewhon Books)
17. Love & Other Monsters by Emily Franklin (David R. Godine Publisher)
18. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
19. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
20. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
21. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
22. Just This Once: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Kings #1) by Lena Hendrix (Kensington)
23. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
24. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.) (Nightboat Books)
25. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck (Strange Violin Editions)
26. The Way Disabled People Love Each Other by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Arsenal Pulp Press)
27. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place by bell hooks (University Press of Kentucky)
28. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
29. Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
30. Three Bags Full (A Sheep Detective Story) by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
31. Rain of Shadows and Endings: Deluxe Special Edition (The Legacy #1) by Melissa K. Roehrich (Kensington)
32. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Grove Press)
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Canterbury Classics)
34. Beartooth by Callan Wink (Spiegel & Grau)
35. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
36. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
37. The Library of Amorlin: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Age of Beasts #1) by Kalyn Josephson (Erewhon Books)
38. Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart (Kensington)
39. Devil of the Deep by Falencia Jean-Francois (Bindery Books)
40. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limón (Milkweed)

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