Number One in Hardcover Fiction The Emperor of Gladness:,by Ocean Vuong,
published by Penguin Press.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,June 15, 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
- The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878 - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V.E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399 - King of Ashes
S.A. Cosby, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250832061 - Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $30, 9780593320945 - So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145 - My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975091 - The Great Mann
Kyra Davis Lurie, Crown, $28, 9780593800867 - With a Vengeance
Riley Sager, Dutton, $30, 9780593472408
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488 - Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9780306835735 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast, Viking, $28, 9780593656471 - Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133 - The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $30, 9780593734636 - The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour
James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $25, 9780316585071 - Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Evan Osnos, Scribner, $30, 9781668204481 - Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217060672 - Notes to John
Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677 - Lean Learning: How to Achieve More by Learning Less
Pat Flynn, Simon Element/Simon Acumen, $28.99, 9781668027646 - I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647 - The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272 - One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9798217187430 - Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $22, 9780802162731 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - 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 - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560 - The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063073869 - Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly
Jeff Weiss, MCD, $19, 9780374606138 - Historic Los Angeles Roadsides: Towns Off the Beaten Path in the City of Angels
Mimi Slawoff, Reedy Press, $27, 9781681065793 - Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
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 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Don’t Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274 - The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360 - Chicka Chicka I Love Dad
Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, Julien Chung (Illus.), Little Simon, $9.99, 9781665966856 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637 - Bluey: The Big Blue Guy’s Book of Dad Goals
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593888919 - Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery
Colleen Paeff, Ji-Hyuk Kim (Illus.), Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665931847 - The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536214352 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615 - The Village Beyond the Mist
Sachiko Kashiwaba, Miho Satake (Illus.), Yonder, $18, 9781632063922 - Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880 - Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel
Jules Bakes, Niki Smith (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338835861 - Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments (A Graphic Novel)
Victoria Grace Elliott, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593425312 - Growing Home
Beth Ferry, Terry Fan (Illus.), Eric Fan (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781665942485
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
