Bestselling Books from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance

Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,February 9, 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

James

Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741

All Fours

Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265

Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)

Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635

We Do Not Part

Han Kang, e. yaewon (Transl.), Paige Aniyah Morris (Transl.), Hogarth, $28, 9780593595459

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918

Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)

Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159

Isola

Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089

The Wedding People

Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576

Water Moon

Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593724996

Playground

Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031

All the Colors of the Dark

Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874

The Big Empty

Robert Crais, G.P. Putnam's Sons, $30, 9780525535768

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About

Mel Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366

Source Code: My Beginnings

Bill Gates, Knopf, $30, 9780593801581

On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111

Memorial Days: A Memoir

Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

Neko Case, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538710500

Aflame: Learning from Silence

Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287

Unicorn Team: The Nine Leadership Types You Need to Launch Your Big Ideas with Speed and Success

Jen Kem, Hay House Business, $26.99, 9781401980276

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir

Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

Sahil Bloom, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723180

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240

How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805

Breath: Wake Up to Life

Prem Rawat, St. Martin's Essentials, $25, 9781250366757

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

Deep End

Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182

Orbital

Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $17, 9781451673319

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984

North Woods

Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040

Yellowface

R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $19.99, 9780062662583

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

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

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, $20, 9781571313560

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781668065969

Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

Oren Kessler, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, $19.99, 9781538193709

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Irene Vallejo, Vintage, $20, 9780593312568

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties

Elijah Wald, Dey Street Books, $18.99, 9780062366696

Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791

MASS MARKET

1984

George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935

Animal Farm

George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342

The Great Gatsby

F.Scott Fitzgerald, Pocket, $9.99, 9781982146702

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541

Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $9.99, 9780316769501

Dune

Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville, Bantam Classics, $5.95, 9780553213119

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617

Little Blue Truck's Valentine

Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441

Grumpy Monkey Valentine Gross-Out

Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593486924

Good Night, Gorilla

Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035

The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Valentine

Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $9.99, 9780593754757

Guess How Much I Love You

Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637

Love from Bluey

Suzy Brumm, Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593658444

Home in a Lunchbox

Cherry Mo, Penguin Workshop, $18.99, 9780593661345

Girls on the Rise

Amanda Gorman, Loveis Wise (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593624180

I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home

Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.), HarperFestival, $9.99, 9780062574220

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

Wings of Starlight

Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458

Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860

The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542

A Wolf Called Fire

Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133

The Last Dragon on Mars

Scott Reintgen, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665946513

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196

The Squad: A Graphic Novel

Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315

A Copycat Conundrum (The Misfits)

Lisa Yee, Dan Santat (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780593564226

A Wolf Called Wander

Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558

CHILDREN'S SERIES

Dog Man

Dav Pilkey, Graphix

The Wild Robot

Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Wings of Fire

Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams

The Bad Guys

Aaron Blabey, Scholastic

Cat Kid Comic Club

Dav Pilkey, Graphix

Keeper of the Lost Cities

Shannon Messenger, Aladdin

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Rick Riordan, Hyperion

Spy School

Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

InvestiGators

John Patrick Green, First Second