The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, 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 Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon
(Liveright)
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
3. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
4. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
5. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
6. Surrender to Lead: The Counterintuitive Approach to Driving Extraordinary Results by Jessica Kriegel and Joe Terry (Amplify Publishing)
7. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
8. Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by Kelly Hayes (Ed.)  (AK Press)
9. Transform!: Freedom Demands Personal Transformation by Arash Vossoughi (G&D Media)
10. One Aladdin Two Lamps, Jeanette Winterson (Grove Press)
11. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
12. How to Love (Hardcover Gift Edition (Mindfulness Essentials #13) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
13. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
14. On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt (Library of America)
15. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
16. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
17. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
18. .The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
19. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
20. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
21. Maintenance of Everything: Part One, Stewart Brand (Stripe Press)
22. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
23. The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have by Mark Nepo (Red Wheel)
24. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
25. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
26. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
27. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.)  (Nightboat Books)
28. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books)
29. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
30. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement , Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books)
31. A Black Queer History of the United States, C.Riley Snorton, Darius Bost (ReVisioning History)
32. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
33. 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)
34. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (Beacon Press)
35. An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2026 by Susan Gail Johnson (Abbeville Press)
36. The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando, Jr. (Astra House)
37. Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket Books)
38. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
39. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (New Press)
40. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publishing)

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