The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, June 29, 2025. Based on reporting from the
independent booksellers of Northern 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
5. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
6. So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145
7. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
8. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
9. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
10. Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
11. Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330
12. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
13. My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975091
14. Don't Let Him In
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781668033876
15. Spent
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $32, 9780063278929
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
2. 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
3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
5. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471
6. Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
E. Jean Carroll, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250381682
7. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
8. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
10. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
11. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
12. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
13. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
14. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, The Dial Press, $34, 9780593977644
15. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
5. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
6. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372
7. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
8. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
9. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
10. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731
11. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394
12. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
13. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
14. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
15. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
5. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. 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
9. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
10. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
11. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888903636
12. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
13. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
14. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
15. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
5. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
6. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
8. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
10. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
3. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
4. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
7. Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #11)
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339005102
8. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
9. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
10. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
11. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
12. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
13. Peekaboo: Dog
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536241341
14. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835618
15. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
16. Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #4)
Jessica Townsend, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316348393
17. Stuck (A Click Graphic Novel, #7)
Kayla Miller, Clarion Books, $15.99, 9780063285651
18. Chef's Secret (Front Desk, #6)
Kelly Yang, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781546138662
19. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203907
20. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843
21. Creaky Acres: A Graphic Novel
Calista Brill, Nilah Magruder (Illus.), Kokila, $14.99, 9780735230620
22. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
23. Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716
24. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
25. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884