The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, August 3, 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
5. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
6. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
7. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
8. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
9. Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091
10. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
11. Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
12. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
13. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
14. Flashlight
Susan Choi, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374616373
15. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
 
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. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
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. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
8. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
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. Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Peter Beinart, Knopf, $26, 9780593803899
11. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
12. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
13. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9780306835735
14. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
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. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
7. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
8. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
9. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
10. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
11. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
12. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
13. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
14. The Briar Club
Kate Quinn, William Morrow Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780063244757
15. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
7. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
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. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
13. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
14. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888903636
15. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. Siddhartha: A Novel
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
7. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
8. The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
10. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
3. Where's Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
4. Glorious Rivals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316481311
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
6. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
7. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
8. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
9. The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593621189
10. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
11. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
12. Where's Waldo? In Hollywood
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536213065
13. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
14. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
15. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
16. Where's Waldo? The Wonder Book
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536213089
17. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
18. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
19. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
20. The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316310314
21. How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing
Cressida Cowell, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 9780316594424
22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
23. Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910
24. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
25. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877