The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, 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. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
4. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
5. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
6. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
7. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)
8. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
9. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
10. I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying by Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.) (Quirk Books)
11. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
12. Becoming the Warrior: Harnessing Your Inner Strength to Silence Self-Doubt by Jenn Donahue (Amplify Publishing)
13. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
14. Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment by Rhae Lynn Barnes (Liveright)
15. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
16. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
17. The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin (Milkweed Editions)
18. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
19. Stuff Every Bird Lover Should Know (Stuff You Should Know #32) by Alice Sun (Quirk Books)
20. The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise by Benoît Gallot, Daniel Casanave (Illus.) (Greystone Books)
21. Counterweights: An Essential Practice for Holding Hope in a Heavy World by Shannan Martin (Fleming H. Revell Company)
22. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
23. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
24. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
25. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
26. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
27. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
28. The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando, Jr. (Astra House)
29. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
30. Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature by Phap Xa, Phap Luu (Parallax Press)
31. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
32. On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt (Library of America)
33. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
34. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
35. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
36. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
37. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
38. The Overthinker’s Guide to Making Decisions: How to Make Decisions without Losing Your Mind by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
39. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
40. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)

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