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,March 2, 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 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley, Crown, $28, 9780593799086 - Show Don’t Tell: Stories
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $28, 9780593446737 - Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089 - Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159 - Swordheart
T. Kingfisher, Bramble, $28.99, 9781250400222 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - Rejection: Fiction
Tony Tulathimutte, William Morrow, $28, 9780063337879 - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981 - Battle Mountain
C.J. Box, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $32, 9780593851050
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 - Golden State: The Making of California
Michael Hiltzik, Mariner Books, $32.5, 9780358539346 - How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - I’ll Have What She’s Having
Chelsea Handler, The Dial Press, $32, 9780593596579 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871 - On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982 - Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
Jennifer Finney Boylan, Celadon Books, $29, 9781250261885 - Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates, Knopf, $30, 9780593801581 - The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933 - Long Island
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $18.99, 9781476785127 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - First Lie Wins
Ashley Elston, Penguin, $19, 9780593492932 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $18, 9781101906118
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131 - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208 - Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley, Picador, $18, 9781250371782 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find–and Keep–Love
Amir Levine, Rachel Heller, TarcherPerigee, $17, 9781585429134 - Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom, Broadway, $17, 9780767905923
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Signet, $9.99, 9780593639580
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071 - Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526 - Dragon’s First Taco
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Bluey: Queens
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750872 - I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $7.99, 9780375827785 - Peekaboo: Chick (Peekaboo You)
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536223934 - Little Freddie Two Pants: (The Dog with Too Many Pants)
Drew Daywalt, Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593691427
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Werewolf Hamlet
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Charlesbridge Moves, $18.99, 9781623544331 - The Otherwhere Post
Emily J. Taylor, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593404546 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Max in the Land of Lies: A Tale of World War II
Adam Gidwitz, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593112113 - Plain Jane and the Mermaid
Vera Brosgol, First Second, $14.99, 9781250314857 - Rebel Witch: The Crimson Moth: Book 2
Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866929 - Leprechauns and Irish Folklore
Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $6.99, 9780375860096 - The Forest King’s Daughter
Elly Blake, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316395724 - Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon)
Scholastic, $16.99, 9781339028019 - All Better Now
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781534432758
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick
