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 19, 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 - Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728 - The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898 - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155 - Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682 - Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243 - Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $29, 9780593804872 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $30, 9781668059869
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967 - Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781 - 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656 - 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 - Perseverance Principles: How to Unlock Confidence, Consistency, and Wealth Under Pressure
J.J. Mazzo, Wiley, $26, 9781394377527 - The Compass Within: A Little Story About the Values That Guide Us
Robert Glazer, Sourcebooks, $16.99, 9781464245190 - Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City
Mark Ronson, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538741115 - Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825 - All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985 - Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668066898 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - 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 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - The Future of Truth
Werner Herzog, Penguin Press, $26, 9780593833674 - We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Mate
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593952580 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593653241 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257 - 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 Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - Small Moves, Big Life: 7 Daily Practices to Supercharge Your Energy, Productivity, and Happiness (in Just Minutes a Day)
Andrea Leigh Rogers, BenBella Books, $18.95, 9781637747452 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560 - Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud, William Morrow Paperbacks, $27.99, 9780060976255 - Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18, 9780593471203 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495 - Sapiens (Tenth Anniversary Edition): A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $27.99, 9780063422001 - Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676 - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365293 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345337665 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $11.99, 9781451678185
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695 - Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533 - Stellaluna
Janell Cannon, Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780544874350 - The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710999 - Elvira’s First Book of Monsters
Pintachan (Illus.), Elvira, Running Press Kids, $9.99, 9780762489190 - All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $8.99, 9781481431217 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo (A Buffalo Fluffalo Story)
Bess Kalb, Erin Kraan (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593810309 - Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween
A.J. Locascio, Laurie Conley (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.99, 9781603095617
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - 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 - The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907 - Orris and Timble: The Beginning
Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536222791 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412 - Outside
Jennifer L. Holm, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781546138143 - Millie of the Manor: A Graphic Novel
Karina Evans, Andrea Bell, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063282483 - Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- 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 - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley - The Twilight Saga
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion
