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. 1. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State by Michael Lewis (W.
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright) 4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed) 5.
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright) 6. Guinness World Records 2027 by Guinness World Records 7. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
The Game by Peter King (W. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life by Merritt R.
Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women by Eleanor Johnson (Princeton University) 13. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau) 14. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson (Dalkey Archives) 15.
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House) 17. Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright) 18.
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