The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, June 8, 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
2. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330
5. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
6. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
7. Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $30, 9780593320945
8. Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
9. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
10. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
11. The Devils
Joe Abercrombie, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250880055
12. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
13. The Ghostwriter
Julie Clark, Sourcebooks Landmark, $27.99, 9781464221286
14. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
15. The Names
Florence Knapp, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593833902
 
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. Shoveling $H!t: A Love Story about the Entrepreneur's Messy Path to Success
Kass Lazerow, Michael Lazerow, Amplify Publishing, $26, 9798891383517
4. Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677
5. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
6. The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour
James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $25, 9780316585071
7. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9780306835735
8. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
10. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
11. The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
Lynne Olson, Random House, $35, 9780593732304
12. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
13. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
14. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471
15. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
7. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
8. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
9. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047
10. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
11. The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318
12. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731
13. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
14. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
15. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $21.99, 9781649377579
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
7. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
10. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
11. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
12. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
14. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
15. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
6. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
7. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
8. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
9. Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
2. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
3. Odder: An Otter's Story
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $18.99, 9781250323590
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
5. Papa Doesn't Do Anything!
Jimmy Fallon, Miguel Ordóñez (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $18.99, 9781250393975
6. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
8. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
9. Love, Dad: Inspiring Notes from Fathers to Kids
Dr. Joel Warsh, Andrew Gardner, David Cooper (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593572160
10. Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
4. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
5. Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464
6. And They Were Roommates
Page Powars, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250347657
7. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
8. The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732
9. Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780061227288
10. Alone
Megan E. Freeman, Aladdin, $9.99, 9781534467576
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
3. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
4. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
5. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
7. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 
8. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
9. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix 
10. Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix