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 9, 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 - Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - The Ragpicker King
Cassandra Clare, Del Rey, $32, 9780525620020 - One Good Thing: A Novel
Georgia Hunter, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9781984880932 - Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - Battle Mountain
C.J. Box, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $32, 9780593851050 - We Do Not Part
Han Kang, e. yaewon (Transl.), Paige Aniyah Morris (Transl.), Hogarth, $28, 9780593595459 - Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335430991
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- 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 - How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217 - On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - Golden State: The Making of California
Michael Hiltzik, Mariner Books, $32.5, 9780358539346 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - Do This Before Bed: Simple 5-Minute Practices That Will Change Your Life
Oliver Nino, Hay House LLC, $25.99, 9781401980030 - I’ll Have What She’s Having
Chelsea Handler, The Dial Press, $32, 9780593596579 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - Layered Leadership: Drive Double-Digit Growth and Dominate Your Competition with Creative Strategies and Execution
Lawrence R. Armstrong, Matt Holt Books, $30, 9781637746356 - The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111 - Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 978059370184
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 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - Long Island
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $18.99, 9781476785127 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - You Dreamed of Empires
Álvaro Enrigue, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780593544808 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441 - Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463 - Lion
Sonya Walger, New York Review Books, $15.95, 9781681379036
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131 - Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis, Haymarket Books, $17.95, 9798888902523 - Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin, $21, 9781984880826 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208 - 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
James Kaplan, Penguin Books, $20, 9780525561026 - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros, John Howe (Transl.), Verso, $19.95, 9781804290446 - Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., Ballantine, $22, 9780345396815 - A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $18, 9780802163769
MASS MARKET
- The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - 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 - It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $10.99, 9780451465641 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - Carrie
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743664 - The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Bantam, $6.95, 9780553213508
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Shark Girl
Kate Beaton, Roaring Brook Press, $18.99, 9781250184924 - I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860 - Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Bunny, Bunny Peekaboo
Grace Habib (Illus.), Campbell Books, $9.99, 9781035045358 - I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Oathbound
Tracy Deonn, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665951906 - Werewolf Hamlet
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Charlesbridge Moves, $18.99, 9781623544331 - A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943 - The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Clarion Books, $12.99, 9780156012195 - Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889 - The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly, Greenwillow Books, $19.99, 9780063337312 - A Rover’s Story
Jasmine Warga, Storytide, $9.99, 9780063113930 - Fable for the End of the World (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Ava Reid, HarperCollins, $24.99, 9780063430013 - Hikaru in the Light! (Volume 1)
Mai Matsuda, Graphix, $11.99, 9781546140986 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion
