The SoCal 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 Southern 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. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
3. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
4. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
5. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
6. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
7. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
8. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
9. We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $30, 9781668059869
10. Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
11. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
12. The Academy
Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316567855
13. Gray Dawn
Walter Mosley, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316573238
14. Clown Town
Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641297264
15. The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre
Philip Fracassi, Tor Nightfire, $28.99, 9781250879066
 
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. 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
5. Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
6. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
7. I'm Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying
Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.), Quirk Books, $14.99, 9781683694946
8. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
9. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
10. Truly
Lionel Richie, HarperOne, $36, 9780063253643
11. Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
Mark Ronson, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538741115
12. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
13. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
14. Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750
15. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, $28.99, 9781324050629
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
4. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
5. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
6. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
7. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
8. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
10. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
11. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
12. Soul Searching
Lyla Sage, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $18.99, 9780593977774
13. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
14. The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608
15. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
5. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
6. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
7. The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
10. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
11. 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
12. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan, Penguin, $20, 9780143109396
13. America's Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State
Randall Balmer, Steerforth, $13.95, 9781586424145
14. A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
15. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
4. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
5. Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Plata Publishing, $9.99, 9781612681139
6. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
8. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. Murder at Cape Costumers
Maddie Day, Kensington Cozies, $8.99, 9781496740595
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
3. Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween
A.J. Locascio, Laurie Conley (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.99, 9781603095617
4. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
5. Peekaboo: Pumpkin
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229813
6. Bluey and Bingo's Book of Scary Things
Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593891254
7. If I Built a Town
Chris Van Dusen, Rocky Pond Books, $19.99, 9780593324981
8. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
9. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
10. Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
2. 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
3. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
4. 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
5. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
6. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
7. Scarlet Morning
ND Stevenson, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063210349
8. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
9. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
10. Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
3. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 
4. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
5. Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley 
6. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
7. The Twilight Saga
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
8. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin 
9. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion 
10. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion