The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending October 25, 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. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
2. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
3. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver (Crooked Lane Books)
4. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Parry (Transit)
5. Stitched by Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)
6. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W.W. Norton)
7. John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
8. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson (Slowburn)
9. Stoner by John Williams (NYRB Classics)
10. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press)
11. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
12. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
13. Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido (NYRB)
14. Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan (Grove)
15. Solace House by Will MacLean (Grove Press)
16. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
17. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
18. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.) (New Directions)
19. Rottenheart by Kat Dunn (Zando)
20. London Station by David McCloskey (W. W. Norton)
21. The Italian Obsession (House of Ferrara) by T L. Swan (Amdell)
22. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa)
23. The Iliad by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W. W. Norton)
24. Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
25. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
26. Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (Melville House)
27. The Employees by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
28. Up to No Good: The Complete Elderly Lady Stories by Helene Tursten (Soho Crime)
29. F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics by Liz Gotauco, Jade Gotauco (Illus.) (W. W. Norton)
30. Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (David R. Godine Publisher)
31. Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
32. Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone)
33. Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel by Shuang-zi Yang (Graywolf Press)
34. Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy by Brynne Weaver (Slowburn)
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. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
38. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
39. The Overstory by Richard Powers (W. W. Norton)
40. Glass, Irony and God by Anne Carson (New Directions)
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