The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, August 17, 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. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
4. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
5. Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
6. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
7. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
8. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
9. Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250357465
10. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
11. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
12. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
13. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
14. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
15. My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975091
 
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. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
4. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
5. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
6. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
7. 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
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
10. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
11. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
12. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
13. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
14. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Peter Ames Carlin, Doubleday, $30, 9780385551533
15. Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Peter Beinart, Knopf, $26, 9780593803899
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
6. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
7. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
8. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
9. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
10. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
11. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
12. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047
13. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
14. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
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. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
7. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
8. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
11. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
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. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
14. A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
15. Last Night in San Francisco: Tech's Lost Promise and the Killing of Bob Lee
Scott Alan Lucas, Steerforth, $19.95, 9781586423995
 
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. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
5. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
6. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
8. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
9. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
10. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
4. Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters, #29)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $6.99, 9781339022468
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
6. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
7. Mr. Boddington's Studio: San Francisco ABCs
Mr.Boddington's Studio, Penguin Workshop, $9.99, 9781524793470
8. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
9. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
10. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
11. Kingdom of Water: A Graphic Novel
Amy Kim, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338115178
12. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
13. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859
14. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
15. Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #11)
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339005102
16. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
17. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
18. Axolotl and Axolittle
Jess Hitchman, Sarah Rebar (Illus.), Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $14.99, 9781464237904
19. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
20. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
21. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203907
22. Glorious Rivals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316481311
23. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
24. I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel #12)
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110804
25. The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402