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,July 13, 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 - Vera, or Faith
Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091 - The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520 - Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966 - My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975091 - The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy
Brigitte Knightley, Ace, $30, 9780593819456 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299 - Don’t Let Him In
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781668033876 - The Devils
Joe Abercrombie, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250880055 - Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
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 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593832530 - Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity
Eric Topol, Simon & Schuster, $32.5, 9781668067666 - The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636 - We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions
Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle, The Dial Press, $34, 9780593977644 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Sam Kean, Little, Brown and Company, $32.5, 9780316496551 - Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life
Jennifer Pastiloff, Dutton, $29, 9780593474075 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677 - The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374615406
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - 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 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $20, 9781982116538 - One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430 - The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624 - The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668034354 - Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99, 9781635577808 - The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731 - The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190 - 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 Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063073869 - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
Oscar Wilde, Signet, $6.95, 9780451530455 - Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345409874 - Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Bluey: The Pool
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360 - Don’t Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673 - Hot Dog
Doug Salati, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593308431 - Your Forest
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230833
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076 - Unico: Awakening (Volume 1): An Original Manga
Tezuka Osamu, Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339036335 - Unico: Hunted (Volume 2): An Original Manga
Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110460 - Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
C. B. Lee, Feiwel & Friends, $14.99, 9781250417336 - Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191 - The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533253 - D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Ingri D’Aulaire, Delacorte, $19.99, 9780440406945 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324 - Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424 - Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books, $11.99, 9780735269958
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix - Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling, Scholastic - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic - The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
