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,April 13, 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 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181 - The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600 - Say You’ll Remember Me
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $28, 9781538759196 - Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724 - Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031 - Tilt
Emma Pattee, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $27.99, 9781668055472 - The Butcher’s Masquerade
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $35, 9780593955994 - Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668063606 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - Fun for the Whole Family
Jennifer E. Smith, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593358306
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- 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 - Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802 - Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488 - Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059 - Becoming HER: Straight Talk for Healing, Embodying, and Radiating as Your Most Powerful Self
Monica Yates, Post Hill Press, $28.99, 9798895650905 - Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes, William Morrow, $32, 9780063438644 - Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI
Faisal Hoque, Post Hill Press, $30, 9798895650103 - Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi, Dey Street Books, $32.50, 9780063318915 - Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230 - Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Elaine Pagels, Doubleday, $30, 9780385547468 - So Easy So Good: Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating
Kylie Sakaida, S&S/Simon Element, $35, 9781668037980 - When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Graydon Carter, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593655900 - Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843 - I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
Maria Shriver, The Open Field, $30, 9780593653395
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Vintage, $19, 9780593314487 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Good Material
Dolly Alderton, Vintage, $18, 9780593686959 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535 - The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - The Little Liar
Mitch Albom, Harper Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780062406668 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933
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 - 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 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Work That’s Worth It
Georgi Enthoven, River Grove Books, $19.95, 9781632999436 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - Cuba: An American History
Ada Ferrer, Scribner, $21, 9781501154560 - Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley, Picador, $18, 9781250371782 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook
Andre Balazs (Ed.), Rizzoli Universe, $39.95, 9780789324641 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - Room to Dream
David Lynch, Kristine McKenna, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $22, 9780399589218
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345409874 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843 - Don’t Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593709313 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Good Night California
Adam Gamble, Harvey Stevenson (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190214 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - 5 Silly Easter Eggs
Ilanit Oliver, Allison Black (Illus.), Cartwheel Books, $8.99, 9781546144601 - I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $8.99, 9780375827785 - No, David!
David Shannon, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9780590930024
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458 - A Gold Star for Zog
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $7.99, 9781339047263 - Cloud Puppy
Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127 - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315 - The Doomsday Detectives: How Walter and Luis Alvarez Solved the Mystery of Dinosaur Extinction
Cindy Jenson-Elliott, Theo Nicole Lorenz (Illus.), Tu Books, $21.95, 9781643791098 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Powerless Trilogy
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion
