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. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
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. Triage by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
7. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
8. Inner Propaganda: Leading Hearts and Minds Through Turbulent Times by Owen Fitzpatrick (Ideapress Publishing)
9. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
10. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
11. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
12. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
13. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
14. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
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. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
17. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
18. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
19. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
20. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
21. The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and Reading by Ursula K. Le Guin (Shambhala)
22. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
23. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (The Experiment)
24. Great Bakes: Modern Classic Recipes from the Midwest by Martin Sorge (Agate Midway)
25. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
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. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
29. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton)
30. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
31. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
32. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
33. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove)
34. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
35. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)
36. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
37. On Democracy (Library of America Broadsides #3) by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
38. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
39. A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
40. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)

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