The SoCal 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 Southern 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. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
3. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
4. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
5. Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $28, 9798217047352
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
7. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
8. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
9. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
10. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
11. House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593716380
12. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
13. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
14. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
15. A Long Winter
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $20, 9781668212714
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
2. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
3. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
4. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
5. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
6. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
7. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
8. Neurogiving: The Science of Donor Decision-Making
Cherian Koshy, Wiley, $28, 9781394370450
9. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
10. Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats
Ursula K. Le Guin, Library of America, $16.95, 9781598538298
11. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
12. Scriptnotes: A Book About Screenwriting and Things That Are Interesting to Screenwriters
John August, Craig Mazin, Crown, $32, 9780593728062
13. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
14. Notes on Being a Man
Scott Galloway, Simon & Schuster, $29, 9781668084359
15. 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
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
2. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
3. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
4. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736
5. Train Dreams
Denis Johnson, Picador, $17, 9781250007650
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
7. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
8. Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102
9. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
10. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253
11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
12. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
13. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
14. The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition
William Goldman, Harper Perennial, $22, 9780063458154
15. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
5. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
6. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147
7. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
9. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
10. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199
11. The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592
12. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
13. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
14. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593490310
15. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
Matt Kracht, Chronicle, $15.95, 9781452174037
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
6. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
7. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
8. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
9. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
Oscar Wilde, Signet, $6.95, 9780451530455
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
4. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
5. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
6. Little Blue Truck's Christmas
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780544320413
7. The Christmas Sweater
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593533918
8. Steam Train, Dream Train: Next Stop, Christmas!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797227030
9. The Mitten
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780399231094
10. Construction Site Hanukkah Lights: A Hanukkah Lift-the-Flap Book
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Shawna J.C. Tenney (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797226743
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Dragonborn
Struan Murray, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217113217
2. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
3. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
4. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
5. Xolo
Donna Barba Higuera, Mariana Ruiz Johnson (Illus.), Levine Querido, $19.99, 9781646147021
6. Scarlet Morning
ND Stevenson, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063210349
7. Britannica All New Kids' Encyclopedia: Updated Edition - What We Know & What We Don't
Britannica Group, Mark Ruffle (Illus.), Britannica Books, $35, 9781804661505
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412
9. The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763680893
10. Dream On
Shannon Hale, Marcela Cespedes (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $14.99, 9781250843074
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
3. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
4. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Valeria Tenaga Romanazzi (Illus.), Aladdin 
5. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
6. Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic 
7. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
8. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 
9. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix 
10. The First Cat in Space
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley