Number One in Hardcover Fiction Atmosphere:by Taylor Jenkins Reid,
published by Ballantine Books.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,June 8, 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
- Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330 - Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $30, 9780593320945 - Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247 - The Devils
Joe Abercrombie, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250880055 - Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181 - The Ghostwriter
Julie Clark, Sourcebooks Landmark, $27.99, 9781464221286 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - The Names
Florence Knapp, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593833902
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 - Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672 - Shoveling $H!t: A Love Story about the Entrepreneur’s Messy Path to Success
Kass Lazerow, Michael Lazerow, Amplify Publishing, $26, 9798891383517 - Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677 - Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488 - The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour
James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $25, 9780316585071 - Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9780306835735 - I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647 - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp
Lynne Olson, Random House, $35, 9780593732304 - Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471 - Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318 - The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731 - Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $21.99, 9781649377579
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 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190 - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835 - Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360 - Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274 - Odder: An Otter’s Story
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $18.99, 9781250323590 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Papa Doesn’t Do Anything!
Jimmy Fallon, Miguel Ordóñez (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $18.99, 9781250393975 - The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Love, Dad: Inspiring Notes from Fathers to Kids
Dr. Joel Warsh, Andrew Gardner, David Cooper (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593572160 - Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324 - Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464 - And They Were Roommates
Page Powars, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250347657 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $ nine.99, 9781481486293 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732 - Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780061227288 - Alone
Megan E. Freeman, Aladdin, $9.99, 9781534467576
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix - Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix
