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 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. *On Democracy* by Walt Whitman (Library of America 4. *Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)* by Dean Spade (Verso) 5. *Guinness World Records 2026 by Guinness World Records* (Guinness World Records) 6. *The Company of Owls: A Memoir* by Polly Atkin (Milkweed Editions) 7. *Man’s Search for Meaning* by Viktor E. Frankl (Beacon Press) 8. *Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats* by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America) 9. *We the People: A History of the U.S.…