The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, 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 Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon
(Liveright)
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
3. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
4. The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin (Milkweed Editions)
5. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
6. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
7. Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by Kelly Hayes (Ed.)  (AK Press)
8. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
9. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
10. How to Love (Hardcover Gift Edition (Mindfulness Essentials #13) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
11. The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde by Ph.D. Vesely-Flad, Rima (North Atlantic Books)
12. One Aladdin Two Lamps, Jeanette Winterson (Grove Press)
13. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
14. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
15. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
16. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
17. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement , Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books)
18. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
19. On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt (Library of America)
20. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
21. Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham (Atlantic Monthly Press)
22. The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando, Jr. (Astra House)
23. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
24. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (Beacon Press)
25. A Black Queer History of the United States, C.Riley Snorton, Darius Bost (ReVisioning History)
26. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill Books)
27. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
28. Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature by Phap Xa, Phap Luu (Parallax Press)
29. How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! by Danny Caine (Microcosm Publishing)
30. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
31. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
32. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books)
33. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publishing)
34. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)
35. Maintenance of Everything: Part One, Stewart Brand (Stripe Press)
36. On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University)
37. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
38. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
39. Cocktails for the Apocalypse: Celebratory Libations for the End of the World by Jennifer McCartney (Countryman Press)
40. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)

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