The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending February 22, 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. 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. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
5. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
6. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
7. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
8. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
9. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
10. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
11. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
12. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
13. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
14. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
15. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
16. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
17. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
18. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
19. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
20. Wuthering Heights (Word Cloud Classics) by Emily Brontë (Canterbury Classics)
21. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
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 Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek (Atlantic Monthly Press)
25. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
26. Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
27. The Hitch by Sara Levine (Roxane Gay Books)
28. North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Strange Object)
29. When the Museum Is Closed: A Novel by Emi Yagi (Soft Skull)
30. Autobiography of Cotton: A Novel by Cristina Rivera Garza (Graywolf Press)
31. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
32. Trad Wife: A Novel by Saratoga Schaefer (Crooked Lane Books)
33. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Limited Edition (Gods and Monsters #1) by Amber V. Nicole (Kensington)
34. The Wolf and His King: Deluxe Limited Edition by Finn Longman (Erewhon Books)
35. For Human Use: A Novel by Sarah G. Pierce (Run For It)
36. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
37. The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
38. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
39. Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo (Grove Press)
40. Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House #1) by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
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