Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,March 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
- Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - The Antidote
Karen Russell, Knopf, $30, 9780593802250 - Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters, Random House, $28, 9780593595640 - Dream State
Eric Puchner, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550666 - Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181 - Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159 - Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089 - Show Don’t Tell: Stories
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, $28, 9780593446737
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366 - The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593731208 - How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
Yung Pueblo, Harmony, $27, 9780593582275 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success
Angela Jackson, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, $29.95, 9798890570543 - Say Everything: A Memoir
Ione Skye, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668048269 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843 - Coastal: 130 Recipes from a California Road Trip
Scott Clark, Betsy Andrews, Chronicle Books, $35, 9781797226644 - Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
Peter Wolf, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316571708 - Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871 - We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
Alissa Wilkinson, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324092612 - Black Tunnel White Magic: A Murder, a Detective’s Obsession, and ’90s Los Angeles at the Brink
Rick Jackson, Matthew McGough, Mulholland Books, $35, 9780316365789
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- 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 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - Good Material
Dolly Alderton, Vintage, $18, 9780593686959 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica, Scribner, $18.99, 9781668051887 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441 - The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune, Tor, $18.99, 9781250217318 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Long Island
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $18.99, 9781476785127
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
James Kaplan, Penguin Books, $20, 9780525561026 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Elijah Wald, Dey Street Books, $18.99, 9780062366696 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345409874 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish
Shawn Harris, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593571910 - The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970 - Your Forest
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230833 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Shark Girl
Kate Beaton, Roaring Brook Press, $18.99, 9781250184924 - I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860 - Dear Bookstore
Emily Arrow, Genevičve Godbout (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536210699 - Your Island
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230819 - I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Werewolf Hamlet
Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Charlesbridge Moves, $18.99, 9781623544331 - Code Name Verity (Anniversary Edition)
Elizabeth Wein, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780316426312 - A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armińo (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062991324 - Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889 - How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects
Mary Ann Hoberman, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316417129 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - Pocket Peaches: At the Fair
Dora Wang, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $11.99, 9781524878658 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Legendborn Cycle
Tracy Deonn, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
