The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright)
2. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
4. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
5. Guinness World Records 2027 by Guinness World Records
6. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)
7. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
8. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)
9. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
10. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
11. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
12. Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton)
13. A Little History of Mathematics (Little Histories) by Snezana Lawrence (Yale University Press)
14. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
15. No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism by Jared Huffman (W. W. Norton)
16. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
17. The Book of Genocides by Dana Mashoian Walrath (Harvard University Press)
18. Notes to New Mothers by Rebecca Knight (Ed.) (W. W. Norton)
19. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)
20. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
21. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
22. All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror by Peter Bergen (W. W. Norton)
23. Emo Revival: Community, Diy, and Rebirth in Post-Hardcore and Emo (2008-2018) by Andrew Sacher (Clash)
24. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
25. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
26. Triage by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
27. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
28. 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy by Timothy W. Ryback (Atlantic Monthly Press)
29. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
30. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
31. Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides (Vanguard) by Saul Williams (Haymarket Books)
32. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
33. Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering by Alex Davies (W. W. Norton)
34. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove)
35. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)
36. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
37. How to Relax: Hardcover Gift Edition by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
38. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
39. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
40. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)