Number One in Hardcover Fiction Atmosphere:by Taylor Jenkins Reid,
published by Ballantine Books.
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 22, 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
- Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - 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 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299 - King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250832061 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399 - Nightshade
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485 - With a Vengeance
Riley Sager, Dutton, $30, 9780593472408 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323 - So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145 - Spent
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $32, 9780063278929 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $30, 9780593320945
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 - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572 - Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin
Steve Martin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9780306835735 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - Mark Twain
Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir
Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647 - It Rhymes With Takei
George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, Harmony Becker (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $29.99, 9781603095747 - Firm Feedback in a Fragile World: How to Build a Winning Culture with Critical Conversations
Jeff Hancher, Maxwell Leadership, $28, 9798887100470 - The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
Melissa Febos, Knopf, $29, 9780593537237 - The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374615406 - Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Caroline Fraser, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657225 - Shoveling $H!t: A Love Story about the Entrepreneur’s Messy Path to Success
Kass Lazerow, Michael Lazerow, Amplify Publishing, $26, 9798891383517
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - One Golden Summer
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910 - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780063345171 - Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781681370088 - Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Rufi Thorpe, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063356597 - Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper Perennial, $19, 9780063327535
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 Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848 - Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190 - 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 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly
Jeff Weiss, MCD, $19, 9780374606138 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781668065969 - Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $20, 9780812983814
MASS MARKET
- Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345350688
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Day the Crayons Made Friends
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360 - 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 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454960430 - This Book Is Dangerous! (A Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book)
Ben Clanton, Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774886564 - ABCs of California
Sandra Magsamen, Hometown World, $12.99, 9781728243283 - The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373 - Bluey: The Beach
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094 - The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780061074295
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel
Betty C. Tang, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338832716 - The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel
Jules Bakes, Niki Smith (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338835861 - The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780375842207 - Orris and Timble: The Beginning
Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536222791 - Icarus
K. Ancrum, HarperCollins, $11.99, 9780063285798 - A Forgery of Fate
Elizabeth Lim, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780593650615 - We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition)
E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076 - The Hotel Balzaar
Kate DiCamillo, Júlia Sardà (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536223316
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 - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
