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. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America
4. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
5. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
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. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
9. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
10. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
11. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
12. P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau (Duke University Press)
13. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
14. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
15. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
16. How to Love (Hardcover Gift Edition (Mindfulness Essentials #13) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
17. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)
18. Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by Kelly Hayes (Ed.)  (AK Press)
19. On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt (Library of America)
20. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
21. REAL Confidence: A Simple Guide to Go from Unsure to Unshakeable by Simone Knego (Copper Books)
22. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
23. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
24. A Black Queer History of the United States, C.Riley Snorton, Darius Bost (ReVisioning History)
25. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
26. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
27. How to Focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
28. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
29. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement , Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books)
30. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books)
31. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
32. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
33. Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham (Atlantic Monthly Press)
34. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (Beacon Press)
35. One Aladdin Two Lamps, Jeanette Winterson (Grove Press)
36. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
37. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (New Harbinger Publications)
38. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)
39. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
40. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (Lawrence Hill Books)

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