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 Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
3. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
4. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
5. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
6. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
7. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
8. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
9. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
10. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
11. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
12. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
13. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
14. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
15. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
16. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
17. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
18. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
19. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
20. Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America by Kim Phillips-Fein (W. W. Norton)
21. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
22. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)
23. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
24. Amplify!: My Fight for Asian America by Dion Lim (Third State Books)
25. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
26. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)
27. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) by Eve Babitz (NYRB)
28. A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
29. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove)
30. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski
31. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (The Experiment)
32. Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR’s Planet Money (Norton)
33. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by LIndsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Press)
34. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
35. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
36. The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-Four Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic by Phil Cousineau (New World Library)
37. Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It by Emily Hauser (University of Chicago Press)
38. How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
39. On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University)
40. Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower by Andrew Bayliss (W. W. Norton)

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