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. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
3. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
4. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (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. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
10. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
11. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
12. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
13. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
14. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
15. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
16. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
17. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
18. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)
19. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
20. A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
21. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
22. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (The Experiment)
23. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
24. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
25. The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-Four Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic by Phil Cousineau (New World Library)
26. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
27. On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University)
28. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
29. The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music by Colin Asher (W. W. Norton)
30. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
31. How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight Them by Danny Caine (Microcosm Publishing)
32. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove)
33. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
34. Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America by Kim Phillips-Fein (W. W. Norton)
35. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
36. Capital From Zero: Reading Marx in the Age of Climate Catastrophe by KOHEI SAITO (Astra)
37. I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying by Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.) (Quirk Books)
38. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski
39. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)
40. Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature by Phap Xa, Phap Luu (Parallax Press)

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