The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, August 31, 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. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471
2. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
3. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
4. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
5. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
6. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
7. Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
8. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
9. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
10. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
11. So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145
12. The Possession of Alba Díaz
Isabel Cañas, Berkley, $29, 9780593641071
13. Hemlock & Silver
T. Kingfisher, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250342034
14. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
15. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
2. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
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. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
6. Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710
7. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
8. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750
9. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
11. Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
Jim Newton, Random House, $32, 9780593447055
12. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
13. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
14. Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine 
Sami Tamimi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9781984863188
15. Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Susana M. Morris, Amistad, $29.99, 9780063212077
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
3. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
4. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
6. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
7. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
8. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $19, 9781250328151
9. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
10. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
11. Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson, Vintage, $18, 9780593466339
12. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
13. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047
14. By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine, $20, 9780593497234
15. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
 
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. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
6. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324110583
7. 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
8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
9. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
10. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
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. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
14. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
15. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
 
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. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
4. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
5. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
6. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
7. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
9. The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572
10. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
4. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
6. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
8. Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters, #29)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $6.99, 9781339022468
9. I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel #12)
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110804
10. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
11. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859
12. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
13. Space Case The Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934817
14. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
15. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
16. Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781442472433
17. The Summer I Turned Pretty (Deluxe Edition)
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665983235
18. We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
19. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339016580
20. The Everything Trail
Meg Fleming, Chuck Groenink (Illus.), Beach Lane Books, $19.99, 9781665924870
21. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
22. All Ears (FunJungle)
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781665956482
23. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
24. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
25. Into the Bewilderness: A Graphic Novel
Gus Gordon, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063246119