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,March 30, 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 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
Torrey Peters, Random House, $28, 9780593595640 - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $29.99, 9781668075081 - The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600 - Retreat
Krysten Ritter, Harper, $28.99, 9780063334601 - When the Moon Hits Your Eye
John Scalzi, Tor Books, $29.99, 9780765389091 - Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181 - Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159 - Kate & Frida
Kim Fay, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $28, 9780593852385
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230 - Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059 - 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 - Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488 - When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Graydon Carter, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593655900 - Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982 - The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593731208 - Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - The Art and Making of Arcane
Elisabeth Vincentelli, Insight Editions, $60, 9798886633351 - Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - How to Menopause: Take Charge of Your Health, Reclaim Your Life, and Feel Even Better than Before
Tamsen Fadal, Balance, $30, 9780306833540 - Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life
Lewis Howes, Hay House Business, $27.99, 9781401993931 - Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It
Jenny Wood, Portfolio, $29, 9780593717646 - How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
Yung Pueblo, Harmony, $27, 9780593582275
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Vintage, $18, 9780593687512 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $18, 9781101906118 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933 - Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino, Picador, $18, 9781250338020 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $19.99, 9781250884275 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208 - Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley, Picador, $18, 9781250371782 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593448809 - Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller, Simon & Schuster, $17.99, 9781501160349 - Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
Mark Seal, Gallery Books, $20.99, 9781982158606 - 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 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686 - It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $10.99, 9780451465641 - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Shark Girl
Kate Beaton, Roaring Brook Press, $18.99, 9781250184924 - Spot’s First Easter
Eric Hill, Warne, $8.99, 9780241658048 - Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637 - Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801 - The Golden Egg Book
Margaret Wise Brown, Golden Books, $5.99, 9780385384766 - Bunny’s Easter Basket
Danna Smith, Kathryn Selbert (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781665951968 - Richard Scarry’s Bunnies
Richard Scarry, Golden Books, $6.99, 9780593899151 - Peekaboo: Chick (Peekaboo You)
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536223934
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889 - They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera, Quill Tree Books, $15.99, 9780062457806 - Words with Wings and Magic Things
Matthew Burgess, Doug Salati (Illus.), Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774880289 - The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780062991324 - The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780375842207 - Slugfest
Gordon Korman, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780063238107 - The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250838834
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin
