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 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
