Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

Published on Feb 10, 2025

Number One in Hardcover Fiction James:,by Percival Everett,
published by St. Doubleday.

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 2, 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

  1. James
    Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
  2. Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
    Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189
  3. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
    Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
  4. All Fours
    Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
  5. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
    Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $30, 9780593548981
  6. The Wedding People
    Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
  7. Small Things Like These
    Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
  8. The God of the Woods
    Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
  9. The Women
    Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633
  10. Water Moon
    Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593724996
  11. What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria
    Kim Dower, Red Hen Press, $19.95, 9781636282633
  12. Creation Lake
    Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
  13. The Big Empty
    Robert Crais, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $30, 9780525535768
  14. Iron Flame
    Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
  15. Tartufo
    Kira Jane Buxton, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538770818

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  1. 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
  2. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
    Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
  3. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
    Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
  4. Aflame: Learning from Silence
    Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287
  5. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
    Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
  6. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
  7. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
    Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
  8. Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose
    Martha Beck, The Open Field, $30, 9780593656389
  9. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
    Sharon McMahon, Thesis, $32, 9780593541678
  10. Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
    Peter Beinart, Knopf, $26, 9780593803899
  11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
  12. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
    Casey Means, M.D., Calley Means, Avery, $32, 9780593712641
  13. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
    Edmund White, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27.99, 9781639733729
  14. I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots
    Henry Alford, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668019504
  15. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
    Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

  1. Orbital
    Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
  2. Martyr!
    Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
  3. Fourth Wing
    Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
  4. Good Material
    Dolly Alderton, Vintage, $18, 9780593686959
  5. Demon Copperhead
    Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
  6. North Woods
    Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
  7. A Court of Thorns and Roses
    Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
  8. The Nightingale
    Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
  9. The Bell Jar
    Sylvia Plath, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $17.99, 9780060837020
  10. The Frozen River
    Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
  11. A Little Life
    Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
  12. Parable of the Sower
    Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
  13. The Secret History
    Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702
  14. Yellowface
    R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
  15. The Handmaid’s Tale
    Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

  1. All About Love: New Visions
    bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
  2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
  3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
    Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
  4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
  5. 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
  6. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
    Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767
  7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
  8. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
  9. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
    Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin Books, $21, 9781984880826
  10. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
    Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
  11. Meditations
    Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
  12. Man’s Search for Meaning
    Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807014271
  13. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
    Shawn Levy, Anchor, $18, 9780525435662
  14. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
  15. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
    Eckhart Tolle, Penguin Life, $18, 9780452289963

MASS MARKET

  1. 1984
    George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
  2. Animal Farm
    George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
  3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
  4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
  5. The Way of Kings
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
  6. Dune
    Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
  7. The Left Hand of Darkness
    Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
  8. The Hobbit
    J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
  9. The Name of the Wind
    Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
  10. Small Gods
    Terry Pratchett, Harper, $9.99, 9780062237378

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

  1. Guess How Much I Love You
    Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637
  2. Goodnight Moon
    Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
  3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
  4. Happy Valentine’s Day, Curious George!
    H. A. Rey, Clarion Books, $10.99, 9780063384903
  5. Good Night, Gorilla
    Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
  6. Chooch Helped
    Andrea L. Rogers, Rebecca Lee Kunz (Illus.), Levine Querido, $18.99, 9781646144549
  7. Little Blue Truck’s Valentine
    Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
  8. I’ll Love You Till the Cows Come Home
    Kathryn Cristaldi, Kristyna Litten (Illus.), HarperFestival, $9.99, 9780062574220
  9. In My Heart: A Book of Feelings
    Jo Witek, Christine Roussey (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $18.99, 9781419713101
  10. I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
    Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

  1. Impossible Creatures
    Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
  2. Where the Red Fern Grows
    Wilson Rawls, Yearling, $8.99, 9780440412670
  3. American Born Chinese
    Gene Luen Yang, First Second, $14.99, 9781250811899
  4. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
    Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
  5. The Bletchley Riddle
    Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
  6. The First State of Being
    Erin Entrada Kelly, Greenwillow Books, $19.99, 9780063337312
  7. The Giver
    Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544340688
  8. Iron Widow
    Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books, $11.99, 9780735269958
  9. The Tryout: A Graphic Novel
    Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741261
  10. Cloud Puppy
    Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127

CHILDREN'S SERIES

  1. Dog Man
    Dav Pilkey, Graphix
  2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
  3. The Wild Robot
    Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  4. I Survived
    Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic
  5. Keeper of the Lost Cities
    Shannon Messenger, Aladdin
  6. Wings of Fire
    Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
  7. Harry Potter
    J.K. Rowling, Scholastic
  8. Spy School
    Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  9. Elephant & Piggie
    Mo Willems, Hyperion
  10. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
    Rick Riordan, Hyperion

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