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. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
2. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)
3. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
5. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
6. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski
7. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)
8. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
9. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
10. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
11. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
12. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
13. Fifa World Cup 2026: The Official Guide by Keir Radnedge (Welbeck)
14. Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR’s Planet Money (W. W. Norton)
15. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
16. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
17. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
18. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
19. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America by Russell Shorto (W. W. Norton)
20. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
21. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
22. Another Kind of Freedom by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
23. 52 Weekends in the Pacific Northwest: A Local’s Curated Guide to Year-Round Getaways by Kara Patajo (Sasquatch Books)
24. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
25. Go the Fuck to College (Go the Fuck to Sleep #4) by Adam Mansbach, Owen Brozman (Illus.) (Akashic Books)
26. Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team by A.M. Gittlitz (Astra House)
27. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
28. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge (The Experiment)
29. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
30. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)
31. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
32. How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! by Danny Caine (Microcosm Publishing)
33. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
34. Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known by Scott Simon, Liana Finck (Illus.) (W. W. Norton)
35. Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket Books)
36. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
37. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
38. Dog Days by Emily LaBarge (Transit Books)
39. The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroads by Randall Sullivan (Atlantic Monthly Press)
40. Maintenance of Everything: Part One by Stewart Brand (Stripe Press)

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