The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, 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. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
4. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
5. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
6. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America)
7. I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying by Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.) (Quirk Books)
8. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
9. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
10. Stuff Every Bird Lover Should Know (Stuff You Should Know #32) by Alice Sun (Quirk Books)
11. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
12. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
13. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
14. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)
15. On Censorship by Ai Weiwei (Thames & Hudson)
16. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
17. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)
18. How to Love (Hardcover Gift Edition (Mindfulness Essentials #13) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
19. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau)
20. Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity)
21. Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by Kelly Hayes (Ed.)  (AK Press)
22. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
23. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)
24. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
25. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
26. On Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt (Library of America)
27. P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau (Duke University Press)
28. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)
29. The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin (Milkweed Editions)
30. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
31. On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University)
32. Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham (Atlantic Monthly Press0
33. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)
34. America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick by Bob Crawford (Zando)
35. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
36. The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando, Jr. (Astra House)
37. Cocktails for the Apocalypse: Celebratory Libations for the End of the World by Jennifer McCartney (Countryman Press)
38. How to Fight (Mindfulness Essentials #6) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
39. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
40. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (Oni Press)

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