The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending April 26, 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. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.) (New Directions)
4. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle (New Directions)
5. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
6. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
7. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
8. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
9. Love Overboard by Kandi Steiner (Amdell)
10. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
11. The Library of Amorlin: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Age of Beasts #1) by Kalyn Josephson (Erewhon Books)
12. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
13. The Eyes Are the Best Part: Deluxe Limited Edition by Monika Kim (Erewhon Books)
14. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
15. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
16. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
17. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
18. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle (New Directions)
19. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
20. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
21. Three Bags Full (A Sheep Detective Story) by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
22. The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
23. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
24. City of Rats by Copi (New Directions)
25. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
26. No Way Home by T. C. Boyle (Liveright)
27. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
28. Rain of Shadows and Endings: Deluxe Special Edition (The Legacy #1) by Melissa K. Roehrich (Kensington)
29. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
30. The Employees by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
31. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
32. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
33. Size of Your Joy: Poems by Elise Powers (Central Avenue Poetry)
34. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
35. Hollow by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti (King’s Hollow)
36. The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone Publishing)
37. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
38. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
39. The Resurrectionist: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
40. Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari (Bindery Books)
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