The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, January 18, 2026. 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. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
3. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
4. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
5. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
6. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
7. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
8. Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Europa Editions, $30, 9798889661115
9. Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237
10. A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $29, 9780593804872
11. The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave, Scribner, $29, 9781668002964
12. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
13. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
14. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
15. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
2. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
3. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
4. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
5. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
6. 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
7. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
8. Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
9. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
10. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
11. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965
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. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
14. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288
15. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
2. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
3. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
4. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
5. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
6. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
7. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
8. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
9. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
10. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
11. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778
12. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
13. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
14. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
15. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
3. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623
4. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
5. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
6. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
7. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell, Penguin Books, $22, 9780593297827
8. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders, Random House, $20, 9781984856036
9. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
10. On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $20, 9780593728741
11. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $18, 9781419777301
12. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
13. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
14. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant, Penguin, $20, 9780593653661
15. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
3. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Bantam, $7.95, 9780553213508
7. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
2. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419782695
4. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
5. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
6. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
7. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
8. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
10. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
11. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
12. Your Truck
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536248227
13. Home: A Peek-Through Board Book
Britta Teckentrup, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593518953
14. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
15. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
16. Where's Spot?
Eric Hill, Warne, $7.99, 9780399240461
17. The Wildest Thing
Emily Winfield Martin, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217023981
18. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #1)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9780545942157
19. Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Square Fish, $11.99, 9781250076960
20. The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge: A Graphic Novel
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063415508
21. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272
22. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316669443
23. Unfunny Bunny
Kenan Thompson, Bryan Tucker, Tony Neal (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250364814
24. Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 2: Volume 1
Shannon Messenger, Valeria Tenaga Romanazzi (Illus.), Aladdin, $17.99, 9781534463394
25. Vortex of the Chaos Dragon (Dragon Masters, #30)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $7.99, 9781339022499