Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition):R. F. Kuang,
published by Harper Voyager.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,September 7, 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
- Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Buckeye
Patrick Ryan, Random House, $30, 9780593595039 - Katabasis (Standard Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243 - Mona’s Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Europa Editions, $30, 9798889661115 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247 - Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181 - The Hallmarked Man
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $40, 9780316586009 - Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - Happiness and Love
Zoe Dubno, Scribner, $27, 9781668062951 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - Among Friends
Hal Ebbott, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854198
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 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 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843 - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572 - Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288 - The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837994731 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 - A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World’s Greatest Store
Gene Pressman, Viking, $32, 9780593654798 - It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life
Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668014479 - Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716 - A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews, Bloomsbury Publishing, $26.99, 9781639734740
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Penguin, $19, 9780593489291 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987 - Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $18, 9781524798673 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119 - The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953 - Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - 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 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - 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 - On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
Elise Loehnen, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $20, 9780593243053 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495 - Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Vintage, $18, 9780593687239 - Your Baby Doesn’t Come with a Book: Dr Golly’s Guide to the First Four Weeks of Parenthood
Daniel Golshevsky (Dr Golly), Hardie Grant Books, $19.99, 9781761212888 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan, Tor, $10.99, 9781250251466 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695 - Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke, Nikkolas Smith (Illus.), little bee books, $19.99, 9781499816150 - Oh Dear, Look What I Got!
Michael Rosen, Helen Oxenbury (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536235685 - The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360 - The Invisible Parade
Leigh Bardugo, John Picacio, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316295703 - Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- By Invitation Only
Alexandra Brown Chang, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665972437 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593621189 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324 - The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne, David Fickling, $12.99, 9780385751537 - Thorn Season (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kiera Azar, Storytide, $24.99, 9780063464773 - Odder
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424 - Hurricane Heist (The Sherlock Society #2)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932561
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Kelly Matthews (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Powerless Trilogy
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Ivy & Bean
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle Books
