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,July 6, 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
- Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
- James, Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
- The River Is Waiting, Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
- So Far Gone, Jess Walter, Harper, $30, 9780062868145
- My Friends, Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
- My Name Is Emilia del Valle, Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593975091
- Don’t Let Him In, Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781668033876
- The Wedding People, Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
- Nightshade, Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316588485
- Florenzer, Phil Melanson, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324095033
- The Devils, Joe Abercrombie, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250880055
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
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
- Abundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
- Wealthy and Well-Known: Build Your Personal Brand and Turn Your Reputation into Revenue, Rory Vaden, AJ Vaden, Mission Driven Press, $26.99, 9781637634424
- Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism, Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
- Mark Twain, Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, $45, 9780525561729
- Notes to John, Joan Didion, Knopf, $32, 9780593803677
- Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
- Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success, Jeff Hiller, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668031858
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508
- It Rhymes With Takei, George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, Harmony Becker (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $29.99, 9781603095747
- Change the Recipe: Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs, José Andrés, Richard Wolffe, Ecco, $26.99, 9780063436152
- Who Knew, Barry Diller, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668096871
- The Möbius Book, Catherine Lacey, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374615406
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
- All Fours, Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
- Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228
- Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
- The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
- Creation Lake: A Novel, Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $20, 9781982116538
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
- I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
- Funny Story, Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
- The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668034354
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
- The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
- There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak, Vintage, $19, 9780593687567
- Happy Place, Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
- One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir, Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848
- 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
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $20, 9780812983814
- Just Kids, Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
- 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
- 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 Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
- Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Amanda Montell, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780062993168
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition, David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147
MASS MARKET
- 1984, George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
- Animal Farm, George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
- The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
- Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
- The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357
- The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
- The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories, Oscar Wilde, Signet, $6.95, 9780451530455
- Mistborn: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
- Hyperion, Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Wild Robot on the Island, Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
- Good Night, Gorilla, Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
- The Day the Crayons Made Friends, Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
- Millie Fleur Saves the Night, Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339023373
- Your Forest, Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536230833
- Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
- The Bakery Dragon, Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
- I Like Your Chutzpah: And Other Yiddish Words You’ll Like, Suzy Ultman, Rise x Penguin Workshop, $9.99, 9780593751916
- Grumpy Monkey, Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe, C. B. Lee, Feiwel & Friends, $14.99, 9781250417336
- All for the Game, Heather Buchta, Penguin Workshop, $13.99, 9780593384985
- Unico: Hunted (Volume 2): An Original Manga, Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546110460
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel, Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
- The Bletchley Riddle, Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
- Kill the Lax Bro, Charlotte Lillie Balogh, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593899274
- Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Puffin, $9.99, 9780142422861
- The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $8.99, 9780394820378
- The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale, Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
- The Squad: A Graphic Novel, Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
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
- Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix
- Who Would Win?, Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic
- Wings of Fire, Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan, Hyperion
- FunJungle, Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Spy School, Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- I Survived, Lauren Tarshis, Karen De la Vega (Illus.), Scholastic
