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. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
4. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
5. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
6. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
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. Triage by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
10. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
11. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
12. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
13. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
14. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
15. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
16. Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben (W. W. Norton)
17. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
18. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
19. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove)
20. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
21. Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico by Ted Genoways (W. W. Norton)
22. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
23. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
24. How to Relax: Hardcover Gift Edition by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
25. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
26. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
27. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
28. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)
29. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
30. On Democracy (Library of America Broadsides #3) by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
31. How to Understand and Deal with ADHD: Everything You Need to Know (How to Understand and Deal with…Series) by Charity O’Reilly, Tom O’Reilly (The Experiment)
32. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
33. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
34. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
35. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
36. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
37. A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
38. The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and Reading by Ursula K. Le Guin (Shambhala)
39. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill Books)
40. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)

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