For the week ending October 18, 2026

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. The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)

2. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)

3. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver (Crooked Lane Books)

4. Stitched by Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)

5. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W.W. Norton)

6. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Parry (Transit)

7. John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)

8. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters (Catapult)

9. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press)

10. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)

11. Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan (Grove)

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