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. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
7. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
8. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
9. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
10. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
11. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
12. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
13. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
14. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
15. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
16. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
17. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
18. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
19. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
20. Trad Wife: A Novel by Saratoga Schaefer (Crooked Lane Books)
21. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
22. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
23. Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart (Kensington)
24. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Limited Edition (Gods and Monsters #1) by Amber V. Nicole (Kensington)
25. Wicked Onyx (Special Edition): A Dark Academia Romantasy (The Veritas Legacy #1) by Debbie Cassidy (Page & Vine)
26. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
27. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
28. Wuthering Heights (Word Cloud Classics) by Emily Brontë (Canterbury Classics)
29. The Hitch by Sara Levine (Roxane Gay Books)
30. The Wolf and His King: Deluxe Limited Edition by Finn Longman (Erewhon Books)
31. Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards (Spiegel & Grau)
32. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
33. I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For: A Novel by Bsrat Mezghebe (Liveright)
34. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
35. Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum (Europa)
36. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.) (Nightboat Books)
37. Autobiography of Cotton: A Novel by Cristina Rivera Garza (Graywolf Press)
38. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
39. When the Museum Is Closed: A Novel by Emi Yagi (Soft Skull)
40. Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo (Grove Press)

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