The SoCal 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 Southern 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. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
5. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
6. Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
7. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
8. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
9. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
10. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
11. Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250357465
12. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
13. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
14. My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975091
15. The Magician of Tiger Castle
Louis Sachar, Ace, $30, 9780593952306
 
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. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
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. Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
Jim Newton, Random House, $32, 9780593447055
7. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
8. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Peter Ames Carlin, Doubleday, $30, 9780385551533
9. Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream
David M. Lubin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538739297
10. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
11. Me, My Customer, and AI: The New Rules of Entrepreneurship
Henrik Werdelin, Nicholas Thorne, Lasega Books, $26, 9781637634547
12. The Multiply Method: Simple Systems for Building a Solid, Sustainable Network Marketing Team
Sarah Robbins, Mission Driven Press, $26, 9781637634509
13. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
14. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
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. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
4. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
5. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
7. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
8. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
9. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
10. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
11. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
12. Alchemy and a Cup of Tea
Rebecca Thorne, Bramble, $19.99, 9781250333278
13. The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668034354
14. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372
15. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463
 
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. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
9. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
11. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson, Vintage, $18, 9780375725609
12. The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
13. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
14. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
15. The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, $20, 9781577314806
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
3. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
5. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
6. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
7. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
8. The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
9. Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757
10. Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765360038
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997
2. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
5. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
6. All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $8.99, 9781481431217
7. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
8. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
9. Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637
10. Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780060229351
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
2. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
3. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
4. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
5. Immortal Consequences
I. V. Marie, Delacorte Press, $21.99, 9780593898802
6. The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593621189
7. Charlotte's Web
E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
8. How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects
Mary Ann Hoberman, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316417129
9. American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang, First Second, $14.99, 9781250811899
10. Holes
Louis Sachar, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440228592
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
3. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
5. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
6. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
7. The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic 
8. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
9. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
10. Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic