Number One in Hardcover Fiction: Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition):byRebecca Yarros,
published by Entangled: Red Tower 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,January 26, 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
- Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189 - Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - The Big Empty
Robert Crais, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $30, 9780525535768 - Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172 - Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593724996 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - We Do Not Part
Han Kang, e. yaewon (Transl.), Paige Aniyah Morris (Transl.), Hogarth, $28, 9780593595459 - The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
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 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Aflame: Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287 - Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $29.99, 9781668065488 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764 - Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - A Year of Living Curiously: 365 Things Really Worth Knowing
Elizabeth Foley, Beth Coates, Faber & Faber, $22.95, 9780571384488 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - The Dog Who Followed the Moon
James Norbury, William Morrow, $25, 9780063420717 - The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck
Mark Manson, Harper, $26.99, 9780062457714
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118 - Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781639730957 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $17.99, 9780060837020 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228 - The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $19.99, 9780062662583 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593449240 - 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 - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250849359 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286 - Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin Books, $21, 9781984880826 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553208849 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086 - It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $10.99, 9780451465641 - The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Bantam, $6.95, 9780553213508 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Grumpy Monkey Valentine Gross-Out
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593486924 - I Am Elphaba (Universal Pictures Wicked) (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860 - The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - In My Heart: A Book of Feelings
Jo Witek, Christine Roussey (Illus.), Abrams Appleseed, $18.99, 9781419713101 - I Am Glinda (Universal Pictures Wicked) (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884 - Little Blue Truck’s Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441 - Peekaboo: Love (Peekaboo You)
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick, $9.99, 9781536220209 - Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637 - They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them
Dan Paley, Molly Mendoza (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797214504
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272 - Heavenly Tyrant
Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books, $20.99, 9780735269989 - The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542 - Stella & Marigold
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $15.99, 9781797219707 - Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264 - The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat
Li Chen, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9781524882587 - Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500 - Mystery Royale
Kaitlyn Cavalancia, Disney Hyperion, $18.99, 9781368099080
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 - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, First Second - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
