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 Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
3. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
4. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
5. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
6. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
7. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
8. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) by Eve Babitz (NYRB)
9. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)
10. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski
11. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
12. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)
13. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
14. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
15. Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR’s Planet Money (W. W. Norton)
16. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
17. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
18. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
19. Building Great Businesses: Create Momentum, Overcome Setbacks, and Scale with Confidence by Scott Becker (Forefront Books)
20. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
21. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
22. The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis by Devin Thomas O’Shea (Haymarket Books)
23. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
24. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
25. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (Oni Press)
26. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
27. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge (The Experiment)
28. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
29. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
30. How Queer Bookshops Changed the World by A.J. West (Oneworld Publications)
31. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America by Russell Shorto (W. W. Norton)
32. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
33. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
34. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
35. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
36. Elledge’s Nontrivial Trivia: The Seriously Enlightening Stories Behind Supposedly Simple Facts by John Elledge (The Experiment)
37. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)
38. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
39. How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
40. The Shortest History of Soccer: From Ancient Kicking Games to the World’s Most Popular Sport (The Shortest History Series) by Brian D. Bunk (The Experiment)

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