Number One in Hardcover Fiction:My Friends:Fredrik Backman, published by Atria 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, August 24, 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
- My Friends — Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
- The Wedding People — Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
- 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
- Culpability — Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
- Wild Dark Shore — Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
- The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand — Christopher Golden (Ed.), Brian Keene (Ed.), Gallery Books, $35, 9781668057551
- An Inside Job — Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
- The Magician of Tiger Castle — Louis Sachar, Ace, $30, 9780593952306
- So Far Gone — Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145
- Automatic Noodle — Annalee Newitz, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250357465
- The Correspondent — Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
- Isola — Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089
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
- Raising Hare: A Memoir — Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
- Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run — Peter Ames Carlin, Doubleday, $30, 9780385551533
- 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
- Baldwin: A Love Story — Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI — Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
- King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation — Scott Anderson, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548076
- A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck — Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
- Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream — David M. Lubin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538739297
- The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog — Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This — Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
- Abundance — Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
- Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening — Jim Newton, Random House, $32, 9780593447055
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
- Remarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
- All Fours — Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
- The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624
- Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
- Tell Me Everything — Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
- Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology — Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463
- I Who Have Never Known Men — Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
- Piranesi — Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99, 9781635577808
- The Ministry of Time — Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
- The Frozen River — Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
- The Lion Women of Tehran — Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
- Death at the Sign of the Rook — Kate Atkinson, Vintage, $18, 9780593466339
- Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. — Eve Babitz, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781681370088
- This Is How You Lose the Time War — Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Gallery/Saga Press, $16.99, 9781534430990
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Didion and Babitz — Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
- 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
- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me — Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
- Single-Minded: Finding Purpose & Strength in Your Season of Singleness — Bob Wheatley, Streamline Books, $12.99, 9798891652576
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession — Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
- The White Album: Essays — Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
- Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season — John Gregory Dunne, McNally Editions, $19, 9781961341326
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life — William Finnegan, Penguin, $20, 9780143109396
- The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness — Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma — Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
- Mysteries of the Social Brain: Understanding Human Behavior Through Science — Bruce L. Miller, Virginia Sturm, Routledge, $28.99, 9781032814285
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays — Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition — David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147
MASS MARKET
- 1984 — George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
- Animal Farm — George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
- A Raisin in the Sun — Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $8.95, 9780679755333
- Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
- The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
- The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One — J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
- Mistborn: The Final Empire — Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
- Children of Dune — Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
- The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar — Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
- Goodnight Moon — Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
- Aggie and the Ghost — Matthew Forsythe, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $19.99, 9781534478206
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? — Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Priddy, $12.99, 9780312509262
- Grumpy Monkey — Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go! — Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
- Good Night California — Adam Gamble, Harvey Stevenson (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190214
- Harry the Dirty Dog — Gene Zion, Margaret Bloy Graham (Illus.), HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780064430098
- Good Night, Gorilla — Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
- Los Angeles is . . .: A Board Book — Elisa Parhad, Alexander Vidal (Illus.), Abrams Appleseed, $12.99, 9781944903237
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel — Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
- Space Case The Graphic Novel — Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665934817
- Better Than the Movies — Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
- Holes — Louis Sachar, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440228592
- Warriors: Tigerstar and Sasha: 3 Full-Color Warriors Books in 1 — Erin Hunter, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063351769
- The Giver — Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261
- A Wolf Called Wander — Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943
- We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition) — E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
- This Place Kills Me: A Graphic Novel — Mariko Tamaki, Nicole Goux (Illus.), Abrams Fanfare, $19.99, 9781419768453
- The Puppets of Spelhorst — Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536239874
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man — Dav Pilkey, Graphix
- Wings of Fire — Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
- The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid — Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
- The Summer I Turned Pretty — Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Rick Riordan, Hyperion
- Spy School — Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- The Bad Guys — Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
- Elephant & Piggie — Mo Willems, Hyperion
- The Wild Robot — Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
