For the week ending June 14, 2026
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers For nonfiction, generously provided, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores across the country 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 (WW Norton)
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Knowledge, Scientific Knowledge, and Plant Teachings By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed)
3. A resistance history of the United States By Tad Stormer (Steerforth)
4. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of Edmund Fitzgerald John U. By Bacon (Liveright)
5. Are any rivers alive? by Robert McFarlane (WW Norton)
6. The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sale By Eric J. Dolin (Liveright)
7. Solution: Protecting America from mob-style government corruption By Barbara McQuade (Seven Stories Press)
8. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books)
9. The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary By Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press)
10. Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: A Runaway Family in the Revolutionary Underground By Zaid Ayers Dohrn (WW Norton)
11. Mutual aid: building solidarity during this crisis (and the next) by Dean Spade (Verso)
12. Freedom-Based Business Method: Reset, Organize, and Reorganize Your Business to Live a Harmonious Life By Natalie Ellis (Hay House Business)
13. A Unique History of the United States: Revised and Expanded (Revisioning History) by Michael Bronski
14. Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old By Mary Beard (University of Chicago Press)
15. We the People: History of the US Constitution By Jill Lepore (Liveright)
16. man’s search for meaning By Victor E. Frankl (Beacon Press)
17. The Beginning Follows the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books)
18. FIFA World Cup 2026: Official Guide By Keir Radnage (Welbeck)
19. These Truths: History of the United States By Jill Lepore (WW Norton)
20. The Fourth Branch: How State Governments Can Save Our Union by Daniel Squadron (Zando)
21. Collecting Moss: The Natural and Cultural History of Moss By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Oregon State University Press)
22. on democracy By Walt Whitman (Library of America)
23. Planet Money: A guide to the economic forces shaping your life By Alex Mayassi, host of NPR’s Planet Money (WW Norton)
24. SPQR: History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Liveright)
25. Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America By Russell Shorto (WW Norton)
26. a philosophy of walking By Frederick Grosse, John Howe (translation) (Verso)
27. How weird bookstores changed the world by AJ West (One World Publishing)
28. how to relax (Mindfulness Essentials #5) by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)
29. how to love (Mindfulness Essentials #3) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (illus.) (Parallax Press)
30. Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
31. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press)
32. What is queer food?: how we introduced a revolution by John Birdsall (WW Norton)
33. Things every bird lover should know (Stuff You Should Know #32) by Alice Sun (Quirk Books)
34. another kind of freedom By Pema Chodron (Shambhala)
35. A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: The Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge (experiment)
36. Bizarre as Folklore: The Hidden Bizarre History of Myths and Monsters By Sacha Coward (Manchester University Press)
37. how to focus (Mindfulness Essentials #9) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (illus.) (Parallax Press)
38. America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, From President to Political Savvy by Bob Crawford (Zando)
39. Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster Resilient Communities By Kate Rose Weiner, Kaelia Rose Loften (Heyday Books)
40. Dad Jokes: The Greatest of All Time By @dadsaysjokes (Hamlin)
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