The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending June 7, 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.
*
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. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
6. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.) (New Directions)
7. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
8. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
9. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
10. Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel by Shuang-zi Yang (Graywolf Press)
11. The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition by Robert W. Chambers (Pushkin Press)
12. Three Bags Full (A Sheep Detective Story) by Leonie Swann (Soho Crime)
13. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
14. Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
15. The Iliad by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W. W. Norton)
16. The Clock House Murders (The Bizarre House Mysteries) by Yukito Ayatsuji (Pushkin Vertigo)
17. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
18. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
19. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
20. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
21. The Employees by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
22. On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle (New Directions)
23. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
24. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
25. She Walks at Night (Detective Kindaichi Mysteries) by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)
26. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
27. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
28. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
29. Puck: A Novel by Samantha Allen (Zand0)
30. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
31. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck (Strange Violin Editions)
32. Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology by George Abraham (Ed.) (Olive Branch Press)
33. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
34. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
35. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
36. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
37. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle (New Directions)
38. Witch Hat Atelier 1 by Kamome Shirahama (Kodansha Comics)
39. The Fire Agent by David Baerwald (Spiegel & Grau)
40. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
_________________________________________




















