The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, September 28, 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. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
3. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
4. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
5. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
6. Clown Town
Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641297264
7. Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
8. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
9. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
10. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
11. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
12. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471
13. A Slowly Dying Cause
Elizabeth George, Viking, $32, 9780593493588
14. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
15. This Inevitable Ruin
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $39, 9798217190041
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
2. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
3. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
4. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, $28.99, 9781324050629
5. Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Brené Brown, Random House, $32, 9781984855749
6. 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
7. Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
8. Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann, Abrams Press, $35, 9781419780714
9. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
10. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
11. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
12. Shot Ready
Stephen Curry, One World, $50, 9780593597293
13. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
14. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
15. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
5. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
6. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
7. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
9. The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780593712955
10. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
11. The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608
12. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
13. Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
14. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
15. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $19, 9781250328151
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. 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
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
7. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $25, 9780593734230
8. America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
Randall Balmer, Steerforth, $13.95, 9781586424145
9. The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Jeffrey Rosen, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781668002483
10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
11. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
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. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
14. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
15. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $18, 9781878424310
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
6. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
8. Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757
9. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
10. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $21.99, 9781368109116
2. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
3. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
5. InvestiGators: Case Files
John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, Chris Fenoglio (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250223227
6. Bluey and Bingo's Book of Scary Things
Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593891254
7. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
8. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
9. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
10. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
11. Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593905166
12. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Peanuts)
Charles  M. Schulz, Scott Jeralds (Illus.), Simon Spotlight, $7.99, 9781665972208
13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
14. Aggie and the Ghost
Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
15. Witches of Brooklyn: Curse and Reverse: (A Graphic Novel)
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593813430
16. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
17. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
18. Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party
Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy, Hannah Peck (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593693018
19. Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You
Sonia Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alcántara (Illus.), Philomel Books, $18.99, 9780593206294
20. Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat
Julien Chung, Beach Lane Books, $19.99, 9781665954785
21. Frog and Toad Storybook Favorites
Arnold Lobel, HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780062883124
22. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
23. The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Halloween
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $9.99, 9780593890172
24. Ten Little Monsters
Priddy Books, Priddy Books US, $12.99, 9781684495214
25. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461