For the week ending October 25, 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. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Parry (Transit)

5. Stitched by Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)

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

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

8. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson (Slowburn)

9. Stoner by John Williams (NYRB Classics)

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

11. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)

12. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters (Catapult)

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