Number One in Hardcover Fiction Great Big Beautiful Life:,by Emily Henry,
published by Berkley.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,May 4, 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
- Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323 - Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E. Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749 - The Alchemist (Deluxe Edition)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $27.99, 9780063442467 - Heartwood
Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668063606 - Say You’ll Remember Me
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $28, 9781538759196 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488 - 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 - Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636 - The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
Melinda French Gates, Flatiron Books, $25.99, 9781250378651 - Conquering Crisis: Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them
Admiral William H. McRaven, Grand Central Publishing, $26, 9781538771747 - Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802 - Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230 - Matriarch: A Memoir
Tina Knowles, One World, $35, 9780593597408 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843 - So Easy So Good: Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating
Kylie Sakaida, S&S/Simon Element, $35, 9781668037980 - The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - Lifeform
Jenny Slate, Little, Brown and Company, $29, 9780316263931
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $19, 9780812986372 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394 - 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 Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090 - The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Vintage, $18, 9780593687512 - Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131 - 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 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Little Weirds
Jenny Slate, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316485364 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin, $21, 9781984880826 - 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
James Kaplan, Penguin Books, $20, 9780525561026
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Don’t Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673 - Los Angeles, Baby!
Feather Flores, Asia Ellington (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $14.99, 9781797207216 - Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997 - What Would Bluey’s Mum Do?
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593888964 - Bluey: The Beach
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542 - Run Away With Me
Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, $24.99, 9781339035529 - Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889 - A Study in Drowning (Collector’s Deluxe Limited Edition)
Ava Reid, HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063419414 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234 - The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly, Greenwillow Books, $19.99, 9780063337312 - Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Random House/Disney, $18.99, 9781368098458
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic - The Powerless Trilogy
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
