The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, March 1, 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. Brawler: Stories
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593418420
4. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
5. Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181
6. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
7. This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840
8. More Than Enough
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $29, 9780593734605
9. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
10. Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593973257
11. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
12. The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kate Quinn, William Morrow, $32, 9780063244788
13. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
14. Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039
15. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991
2. Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30, 9781984881939
3. American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Jon Meacham, Random House, $38, 9780593597552
4. We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower, Ballantine Books, $35, 9780593727027
5. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
6. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
8. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
9. Football
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648
10. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314
11. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
12. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
13. 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
14. 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
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. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
3. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
4. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140
5. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
6. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
7. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
8. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
9. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
10. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
11. Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $19, 9798217047369
12. And Now, Back to You
B.K. Borison, Berkley, $19, 9780593953143
13. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778
14. Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $19, 9781668063613
15. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004
2. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
4. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
5. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
6. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
7. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676
8. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
9. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593653135
10. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372
11. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $18, 9781878424310
12. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
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. Dog Hiking Northern California: 42 Unmissable Dog-Friendly Trails
Melissa Chen, Helvetiq, $24.95, 9783039641031
15. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250849359
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
3. Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757
4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
7. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
8. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
2. Hilo Presents: The Mighty: (A Graphic Novel)
Judd Winick, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593305300
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
5. Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #9)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001265
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
7. Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852
8. Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.), Aladdin, $10.99, 9781665984126
9. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
10. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
11. The Wildest Thing
Emily Winfield Martin, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217023981
12. 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
13. Darkstalker: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire: Legends Graphic Novel)
Tui T. Sutherland, Jake Parker (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339001296
14. Because of a Shoe
Julie Fogliano, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593707401
15. Barnyard Dance!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665924955
16. Vortex of the Chaos Dragon (Dragon Masters, #30)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $7.99, 9781339022499
17. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
18. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
19. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
20. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
21. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
22. Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461
23. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339016580
24. Forty the Fortune Teller
Drew Daywalt, Kevin Cornell (Illus.), Philomel Books, $18.99, 9780593691465
25. If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721