The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, February 15, 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. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
3. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
4. Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32, 9780593820308
5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
6. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
7. Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Europa Editions, $30, 9798889661115
8. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
9. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
10. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
11. This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840
12. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
13. The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave, Scribner, $29, 9781668002964
14. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
15. The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
2. 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
3. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
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. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
7. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
8. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
9. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965
10. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
11. The Peanuts Guide to Love (Peanuts Guide to Life)
Charles M. Schulz, Running Press Adult, $14, 9798894141893
12. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
13. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
14. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, Liveright, $35, 9781324094647
15. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
2. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
4. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
5. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
7. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
8. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
9. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140
10. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
11. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
12. Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $19, 9798217047369
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
14. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
15. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
2. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623
3. On Love
Joseph Campbell, New World Library, $14, 9781955831123
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
7. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $18, 9781419777301
8. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
9. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
10. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
11. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
12. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
13. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $22, 9781982176624
15. Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Vintage, $21, 9780593315569
 
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. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
5. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
6. The Long Walk
Stephen King, Pocket, $11.99, 9781668052013
7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345350688
8. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608
9. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
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. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
4. Hilo Presents: The Mighty: (A Graphic Novel)
Judd Winick, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593305300
5. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
6. Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852
7. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
8. Europa (City Spies, #7)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665959988
9. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
10. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
11. Dog Loves Baby: A Board Book
Natalie Nelson, Quirk Books, $9.99, 9781683694526
12. Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775
13. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
14. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477
15. Love from Clifford the Big Red Dog
Norman Bridwell, Scholastic, $9.99, 9781546175933
16. Revenants Return (The Dragon's Apprentice #2)
James Riley, Labyrinth Road, $9.99, 9780593813225
17. Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
18. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
19. If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
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. The Dragon's Apprentice
James Riley, Labyrinth Road, $9.99, 9780593813188
22. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
23. The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $14.99, 9798217111916
24. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin, #2
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203907
25. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908