Number One in Hardcover Fiction The Emperor of Gladness:,by Ocean Vuong,
published by Penguin Press.
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 29, 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
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- Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520 - The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878 - So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485 - Among Friends
Hal Ebbott, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854198 - Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247 - Never Flinch
Stephen King, Scribner, $32, 9781668089330 - King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250832061 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Bug Hollow
Michelle Huneven, Penguin Press, $29, 9780593834879
- Atmosphere
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 - Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488 - 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 - How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471 - Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
E. Jean Carroll, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250381682 - The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636 - The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374615406 - Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672 - Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657225 - It Rhymes With Takei
George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, Harmony Becker (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $29.99, 9781603095747 - Who Knew
Barry Diller, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668096871 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910 - Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171 - Of Monsters and Mainframes
Barbara Truelove, Bindery Books, $18.95, 9781964721132 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781681370088 - Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $17, 9781400078776 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848 - 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 Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - 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 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131 - No Woman Left Behind: A Journey of Hope to Heal Every Woman Injured in Childbirth
Kate Grant, She Writes Press, $17.99, 9781647428976 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Kathleen Hanna, Ecco, $19.99, 9780062825247 - Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
MASS MARKET
- The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Bantam, $10, 9780553288209 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357 - Mythology
Edith Hamilton, Grand Central, $10.99, 9780446574754 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637 - Bluey: The Beach
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - This Book Is Dangerous! (A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774886564 - Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071 - Peekaboo: Zoo
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536241433
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel
Jules Bakes, Niki Smith (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338835861 - Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500 - A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880 - A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133 - We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076 - A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234 - Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264 - Icarus
K. Ancrum, HarperCollins, $11.99, 9780063285798
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix
