The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, October 19, 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. Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108
3. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
4. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
6. Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
7. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
8. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
9. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
10. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
11. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
12. A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $29, 9780593804872
13. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
14. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
15. We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $30, 9781668059869

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
2. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
3. 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
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. Perseverance Principles: How to Unlock Confidence, Consistency, and Wealth Under Pressure
J.J. Mazzo, Wiley, $26, 9781394377527
6. The Compass Within: A Little Story About the Values That Guide Us
Robert Glazer, Sourcebooks, $16.99, 9781464245190
7. Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
Mark Ronson, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538741115
8. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
9. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
10. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668066898
11. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
12. 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
13. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
14. The Future of Truth
Werner Herzog, Penguin Press, $26, 9780593833674
15. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
2. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
3. Mate
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593952580
4. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
5. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
6. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
7. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
8. The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608
9. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
10. We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593653241
11. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
12. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
13. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
14. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
15. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
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 Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
6. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
7. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
8. Small Moves, Big Life: 7 Daily Practices to Supercharge Your Energy, Productivity, and Happiness (in Just Minutes a Day)
Andrea Leigh Rogers, BenBella Books, $18.95, 9781637747452
9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
10. Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud, William Morrow Paperbacks, $27.99, 9780060976255
11. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203
12. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
13. Sapiens (Tenth Anniversary Edition): A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $27.99, 9780063422001
14. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676
15. Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
5. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
6. Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365293
7. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
8. Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345337665
9. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
10. The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $11.99, 9781451678185
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
2. Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695
3. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
4. Stellaluna
Janell Cannon, Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780544874350
5. The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710999
6. Elvira's First Book of Monsters
Pintachan (Illus.), Elvira, Running Press Kids, $9.99, 9780762489190
7. All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $8.99, 9781481431217
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
9. Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593810309
10. Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween
A.J. Locascio, Laurie Conley (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.99, 9781603095617
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
4. 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
5. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
6. Orris and Timble: The Beginning
Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536222791
7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412
8. Outside
Jennifer L. Holm, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546138143
9. Millie of the Manor: A Graphic Novel
Karina Evans, Andrea Bell, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063282483
10. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
2. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix 
3. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
4. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet 
6. Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley 
7. The Twilight Saga
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
8. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 
9. Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin 
10. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion