The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, October 5, 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. The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258
2. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
3. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
4. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
5. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
6. Katabasis 
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
8. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
9. Startlement: New and Selected Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $28, 9781639550517
10. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
11. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
12. The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
13. Circle of Days
Ken Follett, Grand Central Publishing, $40, 9781538772775
14. We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $30, 9781668059869
15. A Slowly Dying Cause
Elizabeth George, Viking, $32, 9780593493588
 
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. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
4. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
5. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, $28.99, 9781324050629
6. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
7. Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Brené Brown, Random House, $32, 9781984855749
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. Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
11. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
12. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
13. 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
14. 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
15. Art Work: On the Creative Life
Sally Mann, Abrams Press, $35, 9781419780714
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
2. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
4. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291
5. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
6. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
9. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
12. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371
13. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
14. The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608
15. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
4. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
5. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $25, 9780593734230
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
10. America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
Randall Balmer, Steerforth, $13.95, 9781586424145
11. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
12. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
13. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 978059347120314. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage 
of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
8. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
10. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
 
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. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #3
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203938
3. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
4. Richard Scarry's Halloween Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593905166
5. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
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. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
8. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Halloween
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $9.99, 9780593890172
10. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
11. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
12. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
13. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
14. Billie Jean Peet, Athlete: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781419775741
15. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
16. The Great Big Halloween Hunt
Ekaterina Trukhan (Illus.), Nosy Crow, $8.99, 9798887771632
17. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
18. Ten Little Monsters (Little Squishies)
Priddy Books, Priddy Books US, $12.99, 9781684495214
19. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
20. Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party
Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy, Hannah Peck (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593693018
21. Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science)
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316555296
22. Bluey and Bingo's Book of Scary Things
Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593891254
23. Frog and Toad Storybook Favorites
Arnold Lobel, HarperCollins, $16.99, 9780062883124
24. The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt - Gift Edition
Riel Nason, Byron Eggenschwiler (Illus.), Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774887189
25. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264