Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Atmosphere: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,July 27, 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
- James – Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil – V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
- The Wedding People – Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
- Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
- The Bewitching – Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
- An Inside Job – Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
- The Emperor of Gladness – Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878
- The River Is Waiting – Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
- Culpability – Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
- Not Quite Dead Yet – Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
- My Friends – Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
- Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820247
- The Devils – Joe Abercrombie, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250880055
- Typewriter Beach – Meg Waite Clayton, Harper, $30, 9780063422148
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
- A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck – Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
- Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection – John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
- I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir – Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
- The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century – Tim Weiner, Mariner Books, $35, 9780063270183
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
- Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $31.99, 9780393242133
- 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
- Raising Hare: A Memoir – Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
- 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
- You Have a New Memory – Aiden Arata, Grand Central Publishing, $28, 9781538767597
- It’s Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground – David Litt, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668035351
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
- Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
- The Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
- Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
- All Fours – Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
- I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
- All the Colors of the Dark – Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
- One Golden Summer – Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
- The Safekeep – Yael van der Wouden, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668034354
- Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
- Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $17, 9780593598429
- The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
- Circe – Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
- Orbital – Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
- Funny Story – Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century – Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
- The White Album: Essays – Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
- Didion and Babitz – Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder – David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life – William Finnegan, Penguin, $20, 9780143109396
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook – Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703
- The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, $20, 9781577314806
- Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season – John Gregory Dunne, McNally Editions, $19, 9781961341326
- 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, $24, 9780143129257
- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me – Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
- The Undocumented Americans (One World Essentials) – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, One World, $20, 9780399592706
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles – Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays – Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm – George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
- Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
- 1984 – George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
- Hyperion – Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
- The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
- Mistborn: The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
- The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $10.99, 9781668094853
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
- 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
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
- Millie Fleur Saves the Night – Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339023373
- Where’s Waldo? – Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
- The Crayons Go Back to School – Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593621110
- Llama Llama Red Pajama – Anna Dewdney, Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780451474575
- The Bakery Dragon – Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition) – E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
- Cloud Puppy – Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel – Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
- Family of Liars (Deluxe Edition) – E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118083
- Wings of Starlight – Allison Saft, Random House/Disney, $18.99, 9781368098458
- Odder – Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
- Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe – C. B. Lee, Feiwel & Friends, $14.99, 9781250417336
- Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
- The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels – Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533253
- Looking for Alaska – John Green, Penguin, $12.99, 9780593109069
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Rick Riordan, Hyperion
- Dog Man – Dav Pilkey, Graphix
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
- Elephant & Piggie – Mo Willems, Hyperion
- Wings of Fire – Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
- Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels – Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix
- I Survived – Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Scholastic
- Who Was/Is…? – Stefanie Loh, Joseph J.M. Qiu (Illus.), Penguin Workshop
- Magic Tree House – Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
