For the week ending March 22, 2026

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

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

6. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan (Chelsea Green)

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