The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, September 7, 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. The Hallmarked Man
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $40, 9780316586009
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
5. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
6. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
7. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
8. We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
Syou Ishida, Berkley, $29, 9780593818763
9. The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
10. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
11. The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
12. Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
13. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
14. Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Europa Editions, $30, 9798889661115
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. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
3. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
4. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
5. 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
6. The Little Frog's Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837994731
7. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
10. The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636
11. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
12. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750
13. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
14. They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World's Greatest Store
Gene Pressman, Viking, $32, 9780593654798
15. It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life
Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668014479
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
2. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
4. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
5. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
6. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
7. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
8. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
9. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $19, 9781250328151
10. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
12. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
13. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
14. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
15. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
2. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
3. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
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. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
10. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324110583
11. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
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. How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials #12)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $10.95, 9781952692994
14. Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Anil Ananthaswamy, Dutton, $22, 9780593185766
15. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Vintage, $18, 9780593687239
 
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. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
5. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
6. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
7. The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $10.99, 9781668094853
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
2. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
3. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
4. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
5. Millie Fleur Saves the Night
Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339023373
6. Hurricane Heist (The Sherlock Society #2)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932561
7. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
8. Big Nate: No Harm Done!
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602413
9. Space Case The Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934817
10. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
11. The Last Resort
Erin Entrada Kelly, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546132431
12. Fearful: A Powerless Story (The Powerless Trilogy)
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9781665971072
13. By Invitation Only
Alexandra Brown Chang, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665972437
14. Troubling Tonsils!
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
15. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074
16. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
17. The Everything Trail
Meg Fleming, Chuck Groenink (Illus.), Beach Lane Books, $19.99, 9781665924870
18. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
19. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
20. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
21. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
22. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
23. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
24. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
25. Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters, #29)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $6.99, 9781339022468