The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, August 10, 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
2. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
3. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
4. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
5. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
6. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
7. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
8. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
9. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
10. Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
11. Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250357465
12. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
13. The Magician of Tiger Castle
Louis Sachar, Ace, $30, 9780593952306
14. Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $30, 9780593320945
15. Anima Rising
Christopher Moore, William Morrow, $30, 9780062434159
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
2. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
3. 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
4. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
5. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
6. 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
7. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
11. The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall: Photos and Stories from the Formative Years, 1966-1977
Jim Marshall, Amelia Davis, David Gans, Chronicle Books, $50, 9781797226637
12. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
13. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
14. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
15. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
 
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. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
6. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
8. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
9. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
10. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
11. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
12. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
13. Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson, Vintage, $18, 9780593466339
14. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
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. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
4. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
5. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
6. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith, Penguin Books, $20, 9781984881748
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
9. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
12. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
13. 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
14. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
15. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888903636
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. Holly
Stephen King, Pocket Books, $11.99, 9781668087824
5. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
7. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
8. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
9. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
2. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
3. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
5. Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters, #29)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic Inc., $6.99, 9781339022468
6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
7. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
8. Quest for the True Dragon: A Graphic Novel
Jaimal Yogis, Vivian Truong (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339033006
9. I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel, #12)
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110804
10. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
11. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco 
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
12. Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #11)
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339005102
13. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
14. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
15. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
16. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
17. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859
18. Sunny Figures It Out: A Graphic Novel (Sunny, #6)
Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338792478
19. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
20. Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716
21. San Francisco: A Book of Numbers 
Ashley Evanson, Penguin Workshop, $7.99, 9780448489148
22. Immortal Consequences
I. V. Marie, Delacorte Press, $21.99, 9780593898802
23. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $10.99, 9781984896391
24. Good Night San Francisco (Good Night Our World)
Adam Gamble, Santiago Cohen (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9780977797950
25. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443