The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction

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. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
2. John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
4. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press)
5. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.) (New Directions)
6. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
7. Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel by Shuang-zi Yang (Graywolf Press)
8. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
9. Three Bags Full (A Sheep Detective Story) by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
10. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
11. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle (New Directions)
12. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
13. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
14. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle (New Directions)
15. Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
16. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
17. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
18. The Employees by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
19. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
20. City of Rats by Copi (New Directions)
21. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
22. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
23. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
24. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
25. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
26. The Wax Child by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
27. Mothman Is My Boyfriend: Ten Tales of Cryptid Love and Lust by McKayla Coyle, Wendy Stephens (Illus.) (Quirk Books)
28. Witch Hat Atelier 1 by Kamome Shirahama (Kodansha Comics)
29. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
30. Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage (Liveright)
31. On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle (New Directions)
32. She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (Sandorf Passage)
33. Questions 27 & 28 by Karen Tei Yamashita (Graywolf Press)
34. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
35. Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One by Violet Allen (Littlepuss Press)
36. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
37. The Last Page by Katie Holt (Alcove Press)
38. Riverwork by Lisa Robertson (Coach House Books)
39. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
40. Cat Poems by Tynan Kogane (Ed.) (New Directions)

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