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. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
5. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
6. The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin (Milkweed Editions)
7. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
8. How to Love (Hardcover Gift Edition (Mindfulness Essentials #13) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
9. P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau (Duke University Press)
10. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
11. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
12. On Love by Joseph Campbell (New World Library)
13. Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in a Timeplace of Collapse by Norma Kaweloku Wong (North Atlantic Books)
14. Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by Kelly Hayes (Ed.)  (AK Press)
15. A Black Queer History of the United States, C.Riley Snorton, Darius Bost (ReVisioning History)
16. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
17. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
18. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books)
19. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
20. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
21. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
22. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
23. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
24. The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde by Rima Vesely-Flad, Ph.D. (North Atlantic Books)
25. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)
26. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
27. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill Books)
28. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
29. Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Princeton University Press)
30. On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt (Library of America)
31. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
32. Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life by Roxie Nafousi (Chronicle Prism)
33. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)
34. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (Beacon Press)
35. One Aladdin Two Lamps, Jeanette Winterson (Grove Press)
36. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement , Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books)
37. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
38. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
39. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
40. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)

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