The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
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. * 1. The Calamity
1. Kathryn Stockett's "The Calamity Club" tops the Independent Press Bestsellers list.
2. The ancient epic "The Odyssey" by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, is ranked second.
3. Jacqueline Harpman's "I Who Have Never Known Men" holds the third spot.
4. Douglas Stuart's novel "John of John" is ranked fourth.
5. Lily King's "Heart the Lover" occupies the fifth position.
6. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1" is the sixth bestseller.
7. Alaina Urquhart's "The Butcher Legacy: A Dr. Wren Muller Novel" is ranked seventh.
8. Shuang-zi Yang's "Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel" is eighteenth on the list.
9. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2" is ninth.
10. John Williams' "Stoner" is ranked tenth.
11. John Kenney's "I See You’ve Called in Dead" is eleventh.
12. Claire Keegan's "Small Things Like These" is twelfth.
13. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3" occupies thirteenth place.
14. Emily Wilson's "The Iliad" is fourteenth on the list.
15. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4" is fifteenth.
16. Solvej Balle and Barbara J. Haveland's academic work "On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)" is ranked sixteenth.
17. Sophia Benoit's "The Very Definition of Love" (The Bancroft Sisters) sits at seventeenth place.
18. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5" is eighteenth.
19. Navessa Allen's debut novel "Lights Out" (Into Darkness Series #1) is ranked nineteenth.
20. Brynne Weaver's "Harvest Season" (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy #2) occupies twentieth place.
21. Claire Keegan's "Foster" is twenty-first.
22. Jacqueline Harpman's "We Were Forbidden" is twenty-second.
23. André Aciman's graphic novel adaptation of "Call Me by Your Name" is ranked twenty-third.
24. Lily King's "Writers & Lovers" is twenty-fourth.
25. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6" is twenty-fifth.
26. Makenna Goodman's "Helen of Nowhere" is twenty-sixth.
27. Sheila Masterson's "The Poison Daughter" is ranked twenty-seventh.
28. Olga Ravn's "The Employees" is twenty-eighth.
29. Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend" is ranked twenty-ninth in the list.
30. Kamome Shirahama's graphic novel "Witch Hat Atelier 1" is the thirtieth bestseller.
31. Navessa Allen's "Game On" is thirty-first.
32. Bruce Holsinger's "Culpability" is thirty-second.
33. Richard Powers' "The Overstory" is ranked thirty-third.
34. Luke Kennard's "Black Bag" occupies thirty-fourth place.
35. Virginia Feito's "Victorian Psycho: A Novel" is thirty-fifth.
36. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7" is thirty-sixth.
37. Brynne Weaver's "Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy" ranks thirty-seventh.
38. Amanda Peters' "The Berry Pickers" is thirty-eighth.
39. Beth Brower's "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8" is ranked thirty-ninth.
40. Leonie Swann's "Three Bags Full (A Sheep Detective Story)" is the highest-ranking title on the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers list for fiction.
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