The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, July 20, 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. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
4. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
5. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
6. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
7. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
8. Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091
9. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
10. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
11. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
12. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
13. Coded Justice
Stacey Abrams, Doubleday, $30, 9780385548342
14. The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy
Brigitte Knightley, Ace, $30, 9780593819456
15. Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
 
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 Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
4. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
5. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
6. The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
Tim Weiner, Mariner Books, $35, 9780063270183
7. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
8. We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, The Dial Press, $34, 9780593977644
9. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
11. 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
12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
13. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
14. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
15. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
5. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
6. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731
7. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
8. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
9. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
10. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
12. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372
13. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $20, 9781982116538
14. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
15. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
 
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. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
8. Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
Sam Kelly, Plume, $22, 9780593476048
9. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
10. 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
11. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
12. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888903636
13. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
14. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
3. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
4. The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
5. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $10.99, 9781250773012
8. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
10. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
3. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
4. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. Sunny Figures It Out: A Graphic Novel (Sunny, #6)
Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338792478
7. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
8. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
9. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
10. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
11. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
12. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203907
13. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
14. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
15. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
16. Unico: Hunted (Volume 2): An Original Manga
Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110460
17. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
18. Where's Waldo Now?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210668
19. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
20. Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716
21. Stuck (A Click Graphic Novel, #7)
Kayla Miller, Clarion Books, $15.99, 9780063285651
22. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
23. Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781442472433
24. Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.99, 9781797233208
25. Where's Waldo? Amazing Journeys
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $9.99, 9781536240979