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 Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (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. A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer (Steerforth)

5. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright)

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

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

8. The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)

9. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (Verso)

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

11. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore (Liveright)

12. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)

13. Dad Can You Not?: A Dad’s Guide to Being Less Cringey by Chip Leighton (Countryman Press)

14. A Queer History of the United States: Revised And Expanded (ReVisioning History) by Michael Bronski

15. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (W. W. Norton)

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

17. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)

18. Dad Jokes: Greatest of All Time by @dadsaysjokes (Hamlyn)

19. Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR’s Planet Money (W. W. Norton)

20. Fifa World Cup 2026: The Official Guide by Keir Radnedge (Welbeck)

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

22. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)

23. Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team by A.M. Gittlitz (Astra House)

24. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)

25. How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)

26. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed (Liveright)

27. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge (The Experiment)

28. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America by Russell Shorto (W. W. Norton)

29. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax Press)

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

31. On Democracy by Walt Whitman (Library of America)

32. Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland (W. W. Norton)

33. Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters by Sacha Coward (Manchester University Press)

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

35. I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying by Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.) (Quirk Books)

36. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)

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

38. These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton)

39. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12) by Thich Nhat Nahnh (Parallax Press)

40. Constitution of the United States by Founding Fathers (Applewood Books)

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