Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, 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 Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald* by John U. Bacon (Liveright) 2. *Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants* by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions) 3. *The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change* by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books) 4. *The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary* by Terry Tempest Williams (Grove Press) 5. *Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)* by Dean Spade (Verso) 6. *On Democracy* by Walt Whitman (Library of America) 7. *I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying* by Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.) (Quirk Books) 8.…