The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

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. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon
(Liveright)
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
3. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
4. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
5. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
6. Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by Kelly Hayes (Ed.)  (AK Press)
7. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
8. Winter: The Story of a Season by Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)
9. Stop, in the Name of God by Charlie Kirk (Winning Team Publishing)
10. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
11. The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (Liveright)
12. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.)  (Nightboat Books)
13. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
14. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
15. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
16. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
17. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
18. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
19. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill Books)
20. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
21. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
22. On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt (Library of America)
23. The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando, Jr. (Astra House)
24. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books)
25. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Liveright)
26. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
27. The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo (Red Wheel)
28. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
29. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
30. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
31. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
32. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
33. Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture by Carla Bruni, Phil Thompson, Wonder City Studio (Illus.) (Agate Midway)
34. Genderqueer Menopause: Navigating Menopause for Trans, Gender-Nonconforming, Genderfluid, and Other Queer-Bodied Folx by MSW Firefox Allen, Lasara (North Atlantic Books)
35. Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life by Roxie Nafousi (Chronicle Prism)
36. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
37. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
38. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
39. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller (North Atlantic Books)
40. On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University Press)

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