For the week ending October 4, 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. May We Feed the King by Rebecca Parry (Transit)
3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books)
4. The Odyssey by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W.W. Norton)
5. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver (Crooked Lane Books)
6. John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
7. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
8. Stitched by Eli McCann (Torrey House Press)
9. The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
10. The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson (Slowburn)
11. Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror by Jeneva Rose (Blackstone)
12. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press)
13. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
14. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
15. I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney (Zibby Publishing)
16. The Iliad by Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.) (W. W. Norton)
17. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
18. Stoner by John Williams (NYRB Classics)
19. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.) (New Directions)
20. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
21. Lights Out (Into Darkness Series #1) by Navessa Allen (Slowburn)
22. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
23. Dawn of the Cursed Queen: Deluxe Special Edition (Gods and Monsters #3) by Amber V. Nicole (Kensington)
24. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
25. London Station: A Novel by David McCloskey (W. W. Norton)
26. Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (David R. Godine Publisher)
27. Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman (Coffee House Press)
28. Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula by Sheridan Le Fanu (Pushkin Press)
29. The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett (Graywolf)
30. The Employees by Olga Ravn (New Directions)
31. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
32. Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (Melville House)
33. Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan (Grove)
34. Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
35. Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel by Shuang-zi Yang (Graywolf Press)
36. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)
37. The Lost Spectacular: Deluxe Limited Edition by Zoé Duhaime (Erewhon Books)
38. In the Dark: Deluxe Limited Edition (Kept In Paradise #2) by Shain Rose (Kensington)
39. The Overstory by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)
40. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower (Rhysdon Press)

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