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. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
5. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
6. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
7. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
8. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
9. Orbital by Samantha Harvey, (Grove Press)
10. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
11. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
12. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
13. The Hitch by Sara Levine (Roxane Gay Books)
14. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón, (Milkweed Editions)|
15. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
16. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, (Grove Press)
17. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
18. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
19. Foster by Claire Keegan, (Grove Press)
20. Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards (Spiegel & Grau)
21. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance That Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
22. Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum (Europa Editions)
23. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
24. Winter Stories by Ingvild Rishøi (Grove Press)
25. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
26. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
27. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
28. The Lost Bookshop, Evie Woods (One More Chapter)
29. From Blood and Ash Special Edition, Jennifer L. Armentrout (Blue Box Press)
30. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
31. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Limited Edition (Gods and Monsters #1) by Amber V. Nicole, (Kensington)
32. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger (Grove Press)
33. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
34. Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo, (Grove Press, Black Cat)
35. North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Strange Object)
36. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
37. Slipsworth, Simon Van Booy (David R. Godine Publisher)
38. Ask for Andrea: Deluxe Stenciled Edges, Noelle West Ihli (Kensington)
39. White Nights (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Warbler Classics)
40. I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (Copper Canyon Press)

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