The SoCal 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 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 Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
5. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
6. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
7. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
8. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
9. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
10. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
11. Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
12. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
13. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
14. The Devils
Joe Abercrombie, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250880055
15. Typewriter Beach
Meg Waite Clayton, Harper, $30, 9780063422148
 
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. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
4. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
5. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
7. The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
Tim Weiner, Mariner Books, $35, 9780063270183
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
10. 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
11. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
12. Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
13. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
14. You Have a New Memory
Aiden Arata, Grand Central Publishing, $28, 9781538767597
15. It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground
David Litt, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668035351
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
4. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
5. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
6. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
7. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
8. One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
9. The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668034354
10. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
11. Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17, 9780593598429
12. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
13. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
14. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
15. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
3. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
4. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
6. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan, Penguin, $20, 9780143109396
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 Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, $20, 9781577314806
9. Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season
John Gregory Dunne, McNally Editions, $19, 9781961341326
10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
11. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
12. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
13. The Undocumented Americans (One World Essentials)
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, One World, $20, 9780399592706
14. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
15. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
2. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
4. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
10. The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $10.99, 9781668094853
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
3. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
4. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
6. Millie Fleur Saves the Night
Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339023373
7. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
8. The Crayons Go Back to School
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593621110
9. Llama Llama Red Pajama
Anna Dewdney, Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780451474575
10. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
2. Cloud Puppy
Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127
3. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
4. Family of Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118083
5. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Random House/Disney, $18.99, 9781368098458
6. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
7. Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
C. B. Lee, Feiwel & Friends, $14.99, 9781250417336
8. Charlotte's Web
E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
9. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533253
10. Looking for Alaska
John Green, Penguin, $12.99, 9780593109069
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
4. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
5. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion 
6. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
7. Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix 
8. I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Scholastic 
9. Who Was/Is...?
Stefanie Loh, Joseph J.M. Qiu (Illus.), Penguin Workshop 
10. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers