The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending March 8, 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. Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser (Europa Editions)
5. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (Norton)
6. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
7. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
8. The Library of Amorlin: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Age of Beasts #1) by Kalyn Josephson (Erewhon Books)
9. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
10. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
11. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
12. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
13. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
14. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
15. The Disappointment by Scott Broker (Catapult)
16. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
17. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
18. Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls (Seven Stories Press)
19. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
20. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
21. The Star from Calcutta (A Perveen Mistry Novel #5) by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
22. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
23. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
24. Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth (Verso)
25. Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards (Spiegel & Grau)
26. The Resurrectionist: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
27. Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart (Kensington)
28. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
29. Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House #1) by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
30. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.) (Nightboat Books)
31. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
32. Behind Closed Doors: Deluxe Limited Edition (Kept In Paradise #1) by Shain Rose (Kensington)
33. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
34. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
35. 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen (Grove Press)
36. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
37. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
38. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Grove)
39. Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
40. The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
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