The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
For the week ending March 15, 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. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Grove Press)
7. You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (Button Poetry)
8. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger (Spiegel & Grau)
9. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
10. Foster by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
11. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
12. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
13. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton)
14. The Resurrectionist: Deluxe Stenciled Edges by A. Rae Dunlap (Kensington)
15. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove Press)
16. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
17. The Library of Amorlin: Deluxe Limited Edition (The Age of Beasts #1) by Kalyn Josephson (Erewhon Books)
18. Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls (Seven Stories Press)
19. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)
20. 33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen (Grove Press)
21. The Once and Future Queen: Deluxe Limited Edition by Paula Lafferty (Erewhon Books)
22. Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (Zando)
23. Go As a River by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)
24. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
25. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
26. Hollow (Book 1 in the Crown of Hearts & Chaos series) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, (King’s Hollow)
27. Startlement: New and Selected Poems by Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
28. The Disappointment by Scott Broker (Catapult)
29. Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House #1) by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
30. Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart (Kensington)
31. Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth (Verso)
32. The Count of Monte Cristo (Word Cloud Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (Canterbury Classics)
33. Tangerinn by Emanuela Anechoum (Europa Editions)
34. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
35. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
36. Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (Bindery Books)
37. The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin (David R. Godine Publisher)
38. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Limited Edition (Gods and Monsters #1) by Amber V. Nicole (Kensington)
39. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press)
40. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
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