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. Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
5. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)
6. Guinness World Records 2027 by Guinness World Records
7. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)
8. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)
9. Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era by Susan Neiman (W. W. Norton)
10. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)
11. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
12. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)
13. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
14. No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism by Jared Huffman (W. W. Norton)
15. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)
16. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
17. Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart (Melville House)
18. This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (W. W. Norton)
19. Triage by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
20. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
21. Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt (W. W. Norton)
22. The Book of Genocides by Dana Mashoian Walrath (Harvard University Press)
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. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
25. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
26. A Little History of Mathematics (Little Histories) by Snezana Lawrence (Yale University Press)
27. Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People by Nikolas Bowie, Daphna Renan (W. W. Norton)
28. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
29. Notes to New Mothers by Rebecca Knight (Ed.) (W. W. Norton)
30. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
31. The Adaptability Quotient: Rewiring Your Mind for Success in the Next Human Era by Alec Litowitz (Disruption Books)
32. 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy by Timothy W. Ryback (Atlantic Monthly Press)
33. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
34. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
35. All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror by Peter Bergen (W. W. Norton)
36. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
37. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
38. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (The Experiment)
39. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
40. Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry by Js Tan, Clarissa Redwine (Haymarket Books)