The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, December 7, 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 Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
2. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
3. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
4. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
5. The Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175
6. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
7. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
8. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
9. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
10. The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984
11. The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258
12. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
13. A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $29, 9780593804872
14. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
15. House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593716380
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
2. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
3. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
4. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
5. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
6. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
7. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
8. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
9. Shot Ready
Stephen Curry, One World, $50, 9780593597293
10. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
11. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
Ursula K. Le Guin, Library of America, $16.95, 9781598538298
12. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
13. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
14. The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706
15. 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
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
2. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
4. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
5. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
6. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
7. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
8. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
9. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
10. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
11. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
12. Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
14. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
15. The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063277076
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
3. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
4. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell, Penguin Books, $22, 9780593297827
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
7. All That the Rain Promises and More
David Arora, Ten Speed Press, $17.99, 9780898153880
8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
9. The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592
10. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
11. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
12. A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park
Randall K. Wilson, Counterpoint, $19.95, 9781640097339
13. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Elyse Graham, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063280854
14. On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $20, 9780593728741
15. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
6. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
7. Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757
8. Murder in the Marais
Cara Black, Soho Crime, $9.99, 9781616957308
9. Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, Signet, $6.99, 9780593198025
10. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782695
3. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
5. The Christmas Sweater
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593533918
6. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
7. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
8. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
9. Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #18) (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835656
10. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
11. Steam Train, Dream Train: Next Stop, Christmas!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797227030
12. The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593306635
13. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
14. The Gift of Words
Peter H. Reynolds, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339000343
15. The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063415508
16. Claude: The True Story of a White Alligator
Emma Bland Smith, Jennifer M. Potter (Illus.), Little Bigfoot, $10.99, 9781632175335
17. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
18. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
19. The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710999
20. The Humble Pie
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063469730
21. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
22. Little Blue Truck's Christmas
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780544320413
23. Santa's First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978
24. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
25. The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Christmas Colors
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9798217050857