Number One in Hardcover Fiction:The Black Wolf:Louise Penny,
published by Minotaur 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,November 16, 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 Strength of the Few
James Islington, S&S/Saga Press, $34, 9781982141233 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - The Proving Ground
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316563826 - Brigands & Breadknives
Travis Baldree, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250334886 - The Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175 - Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108 - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155 - Gone Before Goodbye
Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon, Grand Central Publishing, $32, 9781538774700 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728 - Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700 - The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller, Europa Editions, $27, 9798889661566 - Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243 - Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799 - Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432 - Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120 - Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411 - 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967 - Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825 - The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706 - Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781 - Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $35, 9780385547512 - Notes on Being a Man
Scott Galloway, Simon & Schuster, $29, 9781668084359 - Joyride: A Memoir
Susan Orlean, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781982135164 - Finding My Way: A Memoir
Malala Yousafzai, Atria Books, $30, 9781668054277 - Dead and Alive: Essays
Zadie Smith, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593834688 - Insomnia
Robbie Robertson, Crown, $32, 9781524763107
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840 - Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley, Penguin Classics, $11, 9780143131847 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560 - How About Now: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780063306080 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272 - The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition
William Goldman, Harper Perennial, $22, 9780063458154 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99, 9781635577808 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (10th Anniversary Edition)
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257 - The Best American Essays 2025
Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351592 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell, Penguin Books, $22, 9780593297827 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560 - Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617 - Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807014271
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365293 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Bantam, $7.95, 9780553213508 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Humble Pie
Jory John, Pete Oswald (Illus.), HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063469730 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Knight Owl’s Little Christmas
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $8.99, 9780316587501 - The Digger and the Christmas Tree
Joseph Kuefler, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063427396 - Grumpy Monkey Board Book
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997 - A Snow Day for Amos McGee
Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250324733 - Steam Train, Dream Train: Next Stop, Christmas!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797227030 - Bluey’s Night Before Christmas
Lauren Holowaty, Kiara Hankinson (Illus.), Jemma Bayley (Illus.), Penguin Young Readers, $18.99, 9798217050864 - Billie Jean Peet, Athlete: A Picture Book (The Questioneers)
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419775741 - The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710999
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Winging It: A Graphic Novel
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338818529 - The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412 - Hekate: The Witch (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Nikita Gill, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316581820 - A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance
Sophie Jomain, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $22.99, 9781665990394 - Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362 - Witchycakes #1: Sweet Magic
Kara LaReau, Ariane Moreira (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $6.99, 9780593812266 - The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - 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
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - 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 - Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Scholastic - The First Cat in Space
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley
