The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, August 24, 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. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
4. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
6. Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
7. Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250357465
8. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
9. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
10. Hemlock & Silver
T. Kingfisher, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250342034
11. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
12. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
13. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
14. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
15. The Magician of Tiger Castle
Louis Sachar, Ace, $30, 9780593952306
 
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. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
6. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
7. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
8. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
9. The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
Seth Harp, Viking, $30, 9780593655085
10. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
11. 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
12. Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710
13. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
14. Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
15. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
3. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
5. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
6. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
7. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
9. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
10. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
11. Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson, Vintage, $18, 9780593466339
12. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
13. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394
14. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372
15. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
 
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. In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty—Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions
Francis Weller, North Atlantic Books, $19.95, 9798889842613
5. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
7. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
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 Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
10. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
11. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95, 9798888903636
12. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
13. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
14. 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
15. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
7. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
8. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
9. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
10. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $10.99, 9781250773012
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
4. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
5. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
6. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
8. Space Case The Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934817
9. Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters, #29)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $6.99, 9781339022468
10. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
12. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
13. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
14. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
15. San Francisco: A Book of Numbers
Ashley Evanson, Penguin Workshop, $7.99, 9780448489148
16. Mr. Boddington's Studio: San Francisco ABCs
Mr.Boddington's Studio, Penguin Workshop, $9.99, 9781524793470
17. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
18. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
19. Frog and Toad Storybook Favorites
Arnold Lobel, HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780062883124
20. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
21. Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies
Jonathan Stutzman, Jay Fleck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $16.99, 9781797233208
22. I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel #12)
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110804
23. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
24. Unico: Hunted (Volume 2): An Original Manga
Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110460
25. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459