The SoCal 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 Southern 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. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
3. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
6. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
7. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
8. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
9. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
Christopher Golden (Ed.), Brian Keene (Ed.), Gallery Books, $35, 9781668057551
10. An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
11. The Magician of Tiger Castle
Louis Sachar, Ace, $30, 9780593952306
12. So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145
13. Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250357465
14. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
15. Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089
 
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. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
4. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Peter Ames Carlin, Doubleday, $30, 9780385551533
5. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
6. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
7. Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710
8. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
9. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
10. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
11. 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
12. 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
13. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
14. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
15. Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
Jim Newton, Random House, $32, 9780593447055
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
4. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
5. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
6. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463
8. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
9. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99, 9781635577808
10. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
11. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
12. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
13. Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson, Vintage, $18, 9780593466339
14. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781681370088
15. This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Gallery/Saga Press, $16.99, 9781534430990
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
4. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
5. Single-Minded: Finding Purpose & Strength in Your Season of Singleness
Bob Wheatley, Streamline Books, $12.99, 9798891652576
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
8. The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
9. Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season
John Gregory Dunne, McNally Editions, $19, 9781961341326
10. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan, Penguin, $20, 9780143109396
11. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
12. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
13. Mysteries of the Social Brain: Understanding Human Behavior Through Science
Bruce L. Miller, Virginia Sturm, Routledge, $28.99, 9781032814285
14. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
15. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $8.95, 9780679755333
4. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
6. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
7. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
9. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
10. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
4. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Priddy, $12.99, 9780312509262
5. Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997
6. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
7. Good Night California
Adam Gamble, Harvey Stevenson (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190214
8. Harry the Dirty Dog
Gene Zion, Margaret Bloy Graham (Illus.), HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780064430098
9. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
10. Los Angeles is . . .: A Board Book
Elisa Parhad, Alexander Vidal (Illus.), Abrams Appleseed, $12.99, 9781944903237
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. Space Case The Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934817
3. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
4. Holes
Louis Sachar, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440228592
5. Warriors: Tigerstar and Sasha: 3 Full-Color Warriors Books in 1
Erin Hunter, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063351769
6. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
7. A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943
8. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
9. This Place Kills Me: A Graphic Novel
Mariko Tamaki, Nicole Goux (Illus.), Abrams Fanfare, $19.99, 9781419768453
10. The Puppets of Spelhorst
Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536239874
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
2. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
3. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
5. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
7. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
8. The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic 
9. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion 
10. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers