The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, September 21, 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 
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
2. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
3. Clown Town
Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641297264
4. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
5. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
6. Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
7. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
8. We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
Syou Ishida, Berkley, $29, 9780593818763
9. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
10. The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316567855
11. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471
12. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
13. The Hallmarked Man
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $40, 9780316586009
14. Anima Rising
Christopher Moore, William Morrow, $30, 9780062434159
15. Among the Burning Flowers
Samantha Shannon, Bloomsbury Publishing, $29.99, 9781639736010
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
2. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
3. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, $28.99, 9781324050629
4. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
5. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
6. Shot Ready
Stephen Curry, One World, $50, 9780593597293
7. Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann, Abrams Press, $35, 9781419780714
8. 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
9. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
10. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
11. History Matters
David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $27, 9781668098998
12. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
13. 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
14. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
15. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
2. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
3. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
4. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
5. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
7. You Like It Darker: Stories
Stephen King, Scribner, $20, 9781668037720
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
9. The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608
10. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
11. What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama, Hanover Square Press, $18.99, 9781335147158
12. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
13. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
14. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $19, 9781250328151
15. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $25, 9780593734230
8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
9. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
10. On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
Elise Loehnen, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $20, 9780593243053
11. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
12. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
13. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
14. This Wild and Precious Life: A Journal
Mary Oliver, Clarkson Potter, $16.99, 9780593580288
15. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324110583
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
7. It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $10.99, 9780451465641
8. Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757
9. The Only One Left
Riley Sager, Dutton, $10.99, 9798217048250
10. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
5. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
6. Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History
Nathan Hale, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419773204
7. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
8. Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
9. Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You
Sonia Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alcántara (Illus.), Philomel Books, $18.99, 9780593206294
10. InvestiGators: Case Files
John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250223227
11. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
12. Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593905166
13. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
14. Bluey and Bingo's Book of Scary Things
Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers Licenses, $10.99, 9780593891254
15. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
16. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
17. Ten Little Monsters
Priddy Books, Priddy Books US, $12.99, 9781684495214
18. The Last Resort
Erin Entrada Kelly, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546132431
19. Frog and Toad Storybook Favorites
Arnold Lobel, HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780062883124
20. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
21. The Village Beyond the Mist
Sachiko Kashiwaba, Miho Satake (Illus.), Yonder, $18, 9781632063922
22. The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
23. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
24. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: Deluxe Collector's Edition (The Awesome Friendly Series)
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $17.99, 9781419786020
25. Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat
Julien Chung, Beach Lane Books, $19.99, 9781665954785