The Northern California Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and 
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, September 20, 2020. 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. Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184
2. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
3. The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26, 9781609455910
4. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239
5. Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316498937
6. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
7. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27, 9781635575637
8. The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett, Viking, $36, 9780525954989
9. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452
10. What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $26, 9780593191415
11. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
12. Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar, Little, Brown, $28, 9780316496421
13. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
14. Monogamy
Sue Miller, Harper, $28.99, 9780062969651
15. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Rage
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781982131739
2. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
3. Disloyal
Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699
4. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
5. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
6. Compromised
Peter Strzok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780358237068
7. Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla, Clarkson Potter, $28, 9781524759216
8. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
9. Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28, 9781982141462
10. Think Like a Monk
Jay Shetty, S&S, $27, 9781982134488
11. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547
12. Vesper Flights
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27, 9780802128812
13. Pocket RBG Wisdom
Hardie Grant Books, Hardie Grant, $9.99, 9781784882877
14. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
15. Big Friendship
Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman, S&S, $26, 9781982111908
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
2. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
3. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166
4. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
5. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
6. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95, 9781101971062
7. City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $17, 9781594634741
8. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
9. The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624
10. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780525541349
11. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17, 9781984822185
12. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
13. Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062913494
14. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $17, 9780143110439
15. Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17, 9780802156983
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
2. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
3. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18, 9780525560739
4. The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas
Obi Kaufmann, Heyday Books, $55, 9781597144797
5. Intimations
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612
6. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254
7. Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, $19.99, 9781568585987
8. My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470
9. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Jane Sherron de Hart, Vintage, $18, 9781984897831
10. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
11. Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith, Vintage, $16, 9781984898920
12. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
13. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
14. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
15. On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, $9.99, 9780804190114
 
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
4. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
5. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688
7. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098240
8. The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756411329
9. Blue Moon
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780399593567
10. Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Vintage, $7.99, 9780345806543
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES
1. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338535624
2. Logan Likes Mary Anne! (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novel, #8)
Ann M. Martin, Gale Galligan (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338304541
3. Midnight Sun (Twilight)
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $27.99, 9780316707046
4. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
5. The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road
Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781984835345
6. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
7. Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (Who Was/Is…?)
Patricia Brennan Demuth, Jake Murray (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $5.99, 9781524793531
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780439136365
9. Claude: The True Story of a White Alligator
Emma Bland Smith, Jennifer M. Potter (Illus.), Little Bigfoot, $18.99, 9781632172693
10. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Debbie Levy, Elizabeth Baddeley (Illus.), Simon & Schuster (BYR), $18.99, 9781481465595
11. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780544772533
12. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
13. Kamala and Maya's Big Idea
Meena Harris, Ana Ramírez González (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062937407
14. Spooky Pookie
Sandra Boynton, Little Simon, $5.99, 9781481497671
15. The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, Book One)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic, $6.99, 9780545349239
16. I Survived The California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20)
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic, $5.99, 9781338317442
17. I Am Every Good Thing
Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780525518778
18. Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel)
Kelly Yang, Scholastic, $17.99, 9781338591385
19. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
20. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Puffin, $7.99, 9780142501122
21. Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062840356
22. Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers)
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Abrams, $18.99, 9781419737046
23. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
24. Big Nate: The Gerbil Ate My Homework
Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel, $11.99, 9781524860653
25. Guts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500