The SoCal 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 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. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
4. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
5. So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145
6. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
7. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
8. Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
9. Among Friends
Hal Ebbott, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854198
10. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
11. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
12. Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330
13. King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250832061
14. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
15. Bug Hollow
Michelle Huneven, Penguin Press, $29, 9780593834879
 
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. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
3. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
4. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
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. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
8. The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374615406
9. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672
10. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
11. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
12. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657225
13. It Rhymes With Takei
George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, Harmony Becker (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $29.99, 9781603095747
14. Who Knew
Barry Diller, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668096871
15. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
 
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. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
5. Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430
6. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
7. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
8. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
9. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
10. Of Monsters and Mainframes
Barbara Truelove, Bindery Books, $18.95, 9781964721132
11. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
12. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781681370088
13. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
14. Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $17, 9781400078776
15. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
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 Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
8. The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
9. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
11. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
12. No Woman Left Behind: A Journey of Hope to Heal Every Woman Injured in Childbirth
Kate Grant, She Writes Press, $17.99, 9781647428976
13. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
14. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Kathleen Hanna, Ecco, $19.99, 9780062825247
15. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
 
MASS MARKET 
1. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Bantam, $10, 9780553288209
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
7. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357
8. Mythology
Edith Hamilton, Grand Central, $10.99, 9780446574754
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
5. Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637
6. Bluey: The Beach
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094
7. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
8. This Book Is Dangerous! (A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774886564
9. Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071
10. Peekaboo: Zoo
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536241433
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel
Jules Bakes, Niki Smith (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338835861
2. Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500
3. A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615
4. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
5. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
6. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
7. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
8. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
9. Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
10. Icarus
K. Ancrum, HarperCollins, $11.99, 9780063285798
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
2. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
4. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
5. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin 
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
7. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix 
8. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
9. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
10. Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix