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. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State by Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton)

2. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)

3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)

4. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright)

5. Guinness World Records 2027 by Guinness World Records

6. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright)

7. Dispatches from Rural America: Sixteen Essays by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint)

8. The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (W.W. Norton)

9. Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life by Merritt R. Turetsky (W. W. Norton)

10. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon (Liveright)

11. Connections: Find the Common Threads in 100+ Puzzles of Wit and Wordplay (New York Times Games Books) by The New York Times (Authors Equity)

12. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)

13. I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan (Astra House)

14. I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn and Quarterly)

15. Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton)

16. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)

17. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Spiegel & Grau)

18. The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed Editions)

19. The Game by Peter King (W. W. Norton)

20. With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig (W. W. Norton)

21. Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women by Eleanor Johnson (Princeton University)

22. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)

23. Living in the Present with John Prine by Tom Piazza (W. W. Norton)

24. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson (Dalkey Archives)

25. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)

26. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso)

27. Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story by Simon Pare-Poupart (Melville House)

28. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.) (Verso)

29. Mutual Aid: New and Expanded Edition: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)

30. How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World by Ethan Tapper (Broadleaf Books)

31. Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton Classics #129) by Anne Carson (Princeton University)

32. Animals Taught Me Everything by Pam Houston (Torrey House Press)

33. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)

34. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)

35. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press)

36. What If Anger Is the Answer?: A Harvard Marine’s Guide to Shaping Aggression by Mike LeBlanc (Matt Holt Books)

37. Thurber’s Dogs by James Thurber (Library of America)

38. Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Liveright)

39. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)

40. The Unsettling of America (50th Anniversary Edition): Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint)

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