The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, July 27, 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. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
3. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
4. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
5. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
6. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
7. Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
8. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
9. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
10. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
11. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
12. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
13. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
14. The Satisfaction Café
Kathy Wang, Scribner, $28.99, 9781668068922
15. Coded Justice
Stacey Abrams, Doubleday, $30, 9780385548342
 
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. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
4. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
5. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
6. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
7. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
8. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
9. 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
10. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
11. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802
12. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
13. The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
Tim Weiner, Mariner Books, $35, 9780063270183
14. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
15. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
6. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
7. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
8. The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731
9. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
10. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047
11. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
12. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
13. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
14. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
15. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
 
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. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
9. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888903636
10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
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 Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063073869
13. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
14. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
15. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. Holly
Stephen King, Pocket Books, $11.99, 9781668087824
6. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
7. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
8. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
9. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $10.99, 9781250773012
10. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
4. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
7. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
8. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
9. Sunny Figures It Out: A Graphic Novel (Sunny, #6)
Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338792478
10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
11. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
12. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
13. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
14. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
15. Good Night San Francisco
Adam Gamble, Santiago Cohen (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9780977797950
16. Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #11)
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339005102
17. Karen's Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #10)
Ann M. Martin, Shauna J. Grant (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339005072
18. Where's Waldo? The Wonder Book
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536213089
19. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
20. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
21. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
22. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
23. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835618
24. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
25. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391