The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, June 1, 2025. Based on reporting from the independent
booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and
IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
2. Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
3. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
4. Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330
5. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
6. Spent
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $32, 9780063278929
7. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
8. Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $30, 9780593320945
9. My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975091
10. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
11. The Doorman
Chris Pavone, MCD, $30, 9780374604790
12. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
13. The Devils
Joe Abercrombie, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250880055
14. Return to Sender
Craig Johnson, Viking, $30, 9780593830703
15. The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig, Orbit, $30, 9780316582704
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
2. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672
3. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
4. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
7. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9780306835735
8. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
9. Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677
10. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
11. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Nate Bargatze, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538768464
12. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
13. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, The Dial Press, $34, 9780593977644
14. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
15. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
2. Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
4. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
5. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
6. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
7. The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668034354
8. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
9. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
10. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
11. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
12. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
13. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
14. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Crown, $17, 9781984822185
15. Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
4. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
5. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
6. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
9. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
10. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
11. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
12. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063073869
13. Peace Is This Moment: Mindful Reflections for Daily Practice
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $19.95, 9781952692604
14. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
15. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608
7. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
8. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Bantam Classics, $5.95, 9780553213102
9. True Love
Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala, $6.99, 9781590304044
10. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
6. Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071
7. The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536227796
8. The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970
9. Knight Owl
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $17.99, 9780316310628
10. Bluey: The Big Blue Guy's Book of Dad Goals
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593888919
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Grace Lin, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316478328
2. And They Were Roommates
Page Powars, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250347657
3. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
4. Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel
Jules Bakes, Niki Smith (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338835861
5. The Village Beyond the Mist
Sachiko Kashiwaba, Miho Satake (Illus.), Yonder, $18, 9781632063922
6. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
7. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
8. Words with Wings and Magic Things
Matthew Burgess, Doug Salati (Illus.), Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774880289
9. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316038638
10. Matilda
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Puffin, $8.99, 9780142410370
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
3. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
4. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
6. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
7. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix 
8. InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second 
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
10. FunJungle
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers