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. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
3. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
4. Guinness World Records 2027 by Guinness World Records
5. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
6. No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism by Jared Huffman (W. W. Norton)
7. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
8. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
9. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
10. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
11. Triage by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
12. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
13. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
14. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (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. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
17. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
18. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
19. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
20. How to Relax: Hardcover Gift Edition by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
21. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
22. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
23. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
24. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge (The Experiment)
25. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
26. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove)
27. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
28. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)
29. Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico by Ted Genoways (W. W. Norton)
30. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
31. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
32. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill Books)
33. Reality TV for Snobs: Everything You Need to Know About the Shows You’re Too Intellectual to Watch (The Outsider’s Guides) by Ali Barthwell (Quirk Books)
34. Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR’s Planet Money (W. W. Norton)
35. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
36. The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and Reading by Ursula K. Le Guin (Shambhala)
37. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Ph.D. Diamond, Jared (Norton)
38. What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory by Brian Eno, Bette Adriaanse (Faber & Faber)
39. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
40. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)

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