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. 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. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
6. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
7. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
8. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
9. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
10. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
11. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
12. The Resurrectionist: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
13. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
14. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
15. Behind Closed Doors: Deluxe Limited Edition (Kept In Paradise #1) by Shain Rose (Kensington)
16. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
17. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
18. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
19. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
20. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
21. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
22. Away to Me by Patricia B. McConnell (Kensington)
23. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
24. When the Museum Is Closed: A Novel by Emi Yagi (Soft Skull)
25. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
26. Beauty and the Demon: Deluxe Limited Edition (Hell Bent #5) by Aurora Ascher (Kensington)
27. Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart (Kensington)
28. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
29. Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards (Spiegel & Grau)
30. Best Boy by Deborah Goodrich Royce (Post Hill Press)
31. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
32. 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen (Grove Press)
33. Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House #1) by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
34. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
35. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
36. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
37. Camilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Lanternfish Press)
38. The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
39. The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel #1) by A. D. Sui (Erewhon Books)
40. The Hitch by Sara Levine (Roxane Gay Books)

_________________________________________

Literary Hub

Literary Hub