The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, December 14, 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. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
4. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
5. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
6. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
7. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
8. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
9. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
10. The Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175
11. The Antidote
Karen Russell, Knopf, $30, 9780593802250
12. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
13. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
14. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
15. The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
2. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
3. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
4. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
5. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
6. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
7. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
8. Shot Ready
Stephen Curry, One World, $50, 9780593597293
9. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
10. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
11. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
Ursula K. Le Guin, Library of America, $16.95, 9781598538298
12. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
13. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
14. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
15. The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
4. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
5. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
6. The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063277076
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
9. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
10. Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102
11. The Best American Short Stories 2025
Celeste Ng, Nicole A. Lamy (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063399808
12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
13. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
14. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
15. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
6. The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781961793682
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
8. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
9. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
10. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell, Penguin Books, $22, 9780593297827
11. All That the Rain Promises and More
David Arora, Ten Speed Press, $17.99, 9780898153880
12. A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park
Randall K. Wilson, Counterpoint, $19.95, 9781640097339
13. On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $20, 9780593728741
14. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
15. The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
4. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
7. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
8. Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345337665
9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
10. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
3. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
4. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
6. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
7. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
8. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780544580145
9. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
10. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco (My Little Golden Book About...)
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
11. Steam Train, Dream Train: Next Stop, Christmas!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797227030
12. The Christmas Sweater
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593533918
13. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
14. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
15. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
16. Construction Site Hanukkah Lights: A Hanukkah Lift-the-Flap Book
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Shawna J.C. Tenney (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797226743
17. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
18. The Humble Pie
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063469730
19. The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume 3)
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $29.99, 9780593306635
20. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
21. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
22. Knight Owl's Little Christmas
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $8.99, 9780316587501
23. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
24. Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest
Phoebe Wahl, Tundra Books, $19.99, 9780735264892
25. Jan Brett's The Nutcracker
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217005048