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 Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
3. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
4. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
5. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
6. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
7. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
8. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
9. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
10. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
11. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
12. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
13. A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
14. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)
15. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
16. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
17. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
18. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
19. Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR’s Planet Money (Norton)
20. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) by Eve Babitz (NYRB)
21. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
22. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
23. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski
24. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
25. Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection by Samantha Paige Rosen (Ed.) (Beacon Press)
26. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
27. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
28. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)
29. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #9) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
30. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove)
31. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records
32. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
33. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
34. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
35. Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life by Ezekiel J.Emanuel MD, (W. W. Norton)
36. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
37. The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-Four Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic by Phil Cousineau (New World Library)
38. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
39. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
40. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)

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