The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.
Here is the Indie Politics and Current Events Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 3, 2026.
1. The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $34.00, 9780316603782
2. End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32.00, 9780374621384
3. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324131656
4. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246
5. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324098423
6. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
Gil Durán, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00, 9781668221402
7. How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
Sarah Longwell, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250464170
8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28.00, 9780593804148
9. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, Scribner, $32.00, 9781668031575
10. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114
11. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13.00, 9781538778005
12. Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Liveright, $31.99, 9781324090977
13. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22.00, 9780385348768
14. Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Christine Kuehn, Celadon Books, $18.99, 9781250344489
15. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522
16. Biological War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen, Dutton, $33.00, 9798217046034
17. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
18. A Resistance History of the United States
Tad Stoermer, Steerforth, $19.95, 9781586424367
19. Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era
Jacob Weisberg, Penguin Press, $31.00, 9798217062591
20. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
21. This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story
Evan Gershkovich, Crown, $34.00, 9798217087266
22. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668066898
23. The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Knopf, $40.00, 9780593805053
24. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $16.00, 9780679744726
25. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr, Picador, $23.00, 9781250251091