The SoCal 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 Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and
IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
2. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
3. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
6. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
7. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
8. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
9. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
10. Finding Grace
Loretta Rothschild, St. Martin's Press, $29, 9781250381828
11. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
12. Typewriter Beach
Meg Waite Clayton, Harper, $30, 9780063422148
13. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
14. Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091
15. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
 
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. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
3. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
4. The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
Tim Weiner, Mariner Books, $35, 9780063270183
5. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
7. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
10. Who Knew
Barry Diller, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668096871
11. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
12. The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon
Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Viking, $35, 9780593295908
13. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
14. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672
15. Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity
Eric Topol, Simon & Schuster, $32.5, 9781668067666
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
6. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
7. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
8. Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430
9. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371
10. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $20, 9781982116538
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
12. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394
13. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
14. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731
15. Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
2. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
3. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
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 Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. 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
7. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
8. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147
9. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
10. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
11. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
12. Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807014271
13. Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection
Joshua Barkman, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $14.99, 9781524897642
14. Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
Sam Kelly, Plume, $22, 9780593476048
15. What We Eat: A Global History of Food
Pierre Singaravélou (Ed.), Sylvain Venayre (Ed.), Columbia University Press, $26, 9780231221474
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
3. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
4. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
7. The Dead Zone
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668035078
8. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
9. The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572
10. The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey, Puffin, $9.99, 9780140501698
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. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
6. The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970
7. This Book Is Dangerous! (A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774886564
8. The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373
9. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
2. Unico: Hunted (Volume 2): An Original Manga
Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110460
3. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
4. Spark
Chris Baron, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250864741
5. Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464
6. Wonder
R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9781524720193
7. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196
9. The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Grace Lin, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316478328
10. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
2. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
3. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
4. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
6. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin 
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
8. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
9. I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic 
10. The Powerless Trilogy
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers