The SoCal 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 Southern 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. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
3. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
4. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
5. Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
6. Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Europa Editions, $30, 9798889661115
7. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
8. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
9. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
10. The Hallmarked Man
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $40, 9780316586009
11. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
12. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
13. Happiness and Love
Zoe Dubno, Scribner, $27, 9781668062951
14. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
15. Among Friends
Hal Ebbott, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854198
 
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. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
3. 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
4. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
5. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
6. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
7. 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
8. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
9. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
10. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
11. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
12. They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World's Greatest Store
Gene Pressman, Viking, $32, 9780593654798
13. It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life
Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668014479
14. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
15. A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews, Bloomsbury Publishing, $26.99, 9781639734740
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
2. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
3. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
4. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
6. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
7. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
8. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
9. Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $18, 9781524798673
10. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
11. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
13. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463
14. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
15. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
2. 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
3. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
4. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
6. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
7. On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
Elise Loehnen, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $20, 9780593243053
8. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
9. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Vintage, $18, 9780593687239
10. Your Baby Doesn't Come with a Book: Dr Golly's Guide to the First Four Weeks of Parenthood
Daniel Golshevsky (Dr Golly), Hardie Grant Books, $19.99, 9781761212888
11. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
12. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
13. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
14. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
15. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
 
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. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608
6. The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan, Tor, $10.99, 9781250251466
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
8. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
9. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
10. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
2. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke, Nikkolas Smith (Illus.), little bee books, $19.99, 9781499816150
5. Oh Dear, Look What I Got!
Michael Rosen, Helen Oxenbury (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536235685
6. The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
7. The Invisible Parade
Leigh Bardugo, John Picacio, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316295703
8. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
10. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. By Invitation Only
Alexandra Brown Chang, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665972437
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593621189
4. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
5. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
6. Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
7. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne, David Fickling, $12.99, 9780385751537
8. Thorn Season (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kiera Azar, Storytide, $24.99, 9780063464773
9. Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
10. Hurricane Heist (The Sherlock Society #2)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932561
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Kelly Matthews (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
4. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
5. The Powerless Trilogy
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
6. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion 
7. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
8. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
9. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
10. Ivy & Bean
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle Books