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,February 23, 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 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159 - Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189 - We All Live Here
Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9781984879325 - Picks and Shovels
Cory Doctorow, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250865908 - Tartufo
Kira Jane Buxton, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538770818 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
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 - Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871 - Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982 - How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217 - Golden State: The Making of California
Michael Hiltzik, Mariner Books, $32.5, 9780358539346 - The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
Neko Case, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538710500 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437 - The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111 - Aflame: Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287 - Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates, Knopf, $30, 9780593801581 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Kelsey McKinney, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538757406
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441 - Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $18, 9781101906118 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228 - Good Material
Dolly Alderton, Vintage, $18, 9780593686959 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703 - The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - 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 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - 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 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala, $11.95, 9781590309360 - Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
Keren Blankfeld, Back Bay Books, $19.99, 9780316564786 - King: A Life
Jonathan Eig, Picador, $23, 9781250335647 - How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan
Catherine Price, Ten Speed Press, $15.99, 9780593837160 - Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, Haymarket Books, $17.95, 9781642598278
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860 - Hope in a Jar
Deborah Marcero, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593696699 - Girls on the Rise
Amanda Gorman, Loveis Wise (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593624180 - Escargot
Dashka Slater, Sydney Hanson (Illus.), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $8.99, 9780374314286 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Your Island
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230819 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458 - Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth: Book 2
Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866929 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - All Better Now
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781534432758 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062991324 - A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133 - The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542 - The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315 - The Last Dragon on Mars
Scott Reintgen, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665946513 - Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin
