Number One in Hardcover Fiction James:,by Percival Everett,
published by St. Doubleday.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,January 19, 2025. This list is 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
- James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981 - The Big Empty
Robert Crais, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $30, 9780525535768 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - Death of the Author (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Nnedi Okorafor, William Morrow, $30, 9780063391147 - Playworld
Adam Ross, Knopf, $29, 9780385351294 - Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593724996 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - Time of the Child
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $28.99, 9781639734207
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366 - Aflame: Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287 - The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $29.99, 9781668065488 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - The State of Fire: Why California Burns
Obi Kaufmann, Heyday Books, $28, 9781597146517 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764 - Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher, Dey Street Books, $36, 9780062863102 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805 - Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Al Pacino, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593655115 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - Dirtbag Queen
Andy Corren, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538742228 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, $32, 9781954118461
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323 - None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781982179014 - This Is Happiness
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18.99, 9781635576313 - Strange Pictures
Uketsu, Jim Rion (Transl.), HarperVia, $17.99, 9780063433083 - Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99, 9781635577808 - Antarctica
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $18, 9780802163745
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158 - The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781668065969 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593449240 - The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Pagan Kennedy, Vintage, $19, 9780593314715 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765360038 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572 - Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780449214923 - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Potty Time with Bean
Ms. Rachel, Monique Dong (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593898628 - Simone
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Minnie Phan (Illus.), Minerva, $18.99, 9781662651199 - Little Blue Truck’s Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441 - Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson, Harper, $19.99, 9780060229351 - I Am Glinda (Universal Pictures Wicked) (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884 - Heartfelt
Elaine Vickers, Samantha Cotterill (Illus.), Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781665929769 - How to Be Romance with Bluey and Bingo
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593755105
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203 - A Copycat Conundrum (The Misfits)
Lisa Yee, Dan Santat (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593564226 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542 - Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat
Li Chen, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9781524882587 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196 - Fresh Start: A Graphic Novel
Gale Galligan, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338045840
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic - The Treehouse Books
Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton (Illus.), Square Fish - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic
