Number One in Hardcover Fiction The Impossible Fortune:,by Richard Osman,
published by Pamela Dorman.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,October 5, 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
- The Impossible Fortune — Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258
- What We Can Know — Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
- Katabasis — R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898
- Alchemised — SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
- Heart the Lover — Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
- The Correspondent — Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
- We Love You, Bunny — Mona Awad, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $30, 9781668059869
- Culpability — Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
- James — Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
- The Academy — Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316567855
- Gray Dawn — Walter Mosley, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316573238
- Clown Town — Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641297264
- The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre — Philip Fracassi, Tor Nightfire, $28.99, 9781250879066
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- 107 Days — Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656
- Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love — Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781
- We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution — Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
- 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
- Poems & Prayers — Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105
- Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716
- I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying — Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.), Quirk Books, $14.99, 9781683694946
- All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation — Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985
- Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism — Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
- Truly — Lionel Richie, HarperOne, $36, 9780063253643
- Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City — Mark Ronson, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538741115
- Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection — John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
- Abundance — Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
- Guinness World Records 2026 — Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750
- Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy — Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, $28.99, 9781324050629
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- I Who Have Never Known Men — Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
- 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
- Tell Me Everything — Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119
- The Frozen River — Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
- Intermezzo — Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560
- Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
- Remarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
- All Fours — Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
- The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
- Soul Searching — Lyla Sage, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $18.99, 9780593977774
- The Silent Patient — Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
- The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners — Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls — Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession — Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
- Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering — Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma — Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook — Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
- The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition — Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
- The White Album: Essays — Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
- All About Love: New Visions — bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me — Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
- 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
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life — William Finnegan, Penguin, $20, 9780143109396
- America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State — Randall Balmer, Steerforth, $13.95, 9781586424145
- A People’s History of the United States — Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348
- The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself — Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm — George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
- 1984 — George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
- Hyperion — Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
- The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One — J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
- Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert T. Kiyosaki, Plata Publishing, $9.99, 9781612681139
- And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
- A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
- Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
- Murder at Cape Costumers — Maddie Day, Kensington Cozies, $8.99, 9781496740595
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Room on the Broom — Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
- If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone — Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222
- Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween — A.J. Locascio, Laurie Conley (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.99, 9781603095617
- If We Were Dogs — Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721
- Peekaboo: Pumpkin — Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229813
- Bluey and Bingo’s Book of Scary Things — Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593891254
- If I Built a Town — Chris Van Dusen, Rocky Pond Books, $19.99, 9780593324981
- Goodnight Moon — Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
- Good Night, Gorilla — Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
- Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book — Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!) — Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
- From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure — Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $21.99, 9781368109116
- Pocket Bear — Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
- Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science) — Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316555296
- Fake Skating — Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
- The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2) — Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
- Scarlet Morning — ND Stevenson, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063210349
- Impossible Creatures — Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel — Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
- Better Than the Movies — Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid — Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
- Dog Man — Dav Pilkey, Graphix
- Magic Tree House — Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
- Spy School — Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Warriors Graphic Novels — Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley
- The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
- The Twilight Saga — Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Keeper of the Lost Cities — Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin
- Elephant & Piggie — Mo Willems, Hyperion
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion
