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,August 3, 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
- Culpability – Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil – V. E. Schwab, Tor Books, $29.99, 9781250320520
- James – Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
- An Inside Job – Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217
- Not Quite Dead Yet – Holly Jackson, Bantam, $28, 9780593977057
- The Wedding People – Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
- The Bewitching – Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $29, 9780593874325
- Vera, or Faith – Gary Shteyngart, Random House, $28, 9780593595091
- Audition – Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
- The River Is Waiting – Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399
- My Friends – Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario – Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30, 9780593820261
- Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441299
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
- Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection – John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
- A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck – Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
- Gwyneth: The Biography – Amy Odell, Gallery Books, $30.99, 9781668005774
- I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir – Keith McNally, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668017647
- Raising Hare: A Memoir – Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
- 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
- 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
- Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism – Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
- The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World – Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
- The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century – Tim Weiner, Mariner Books, $35, 9780063270183
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck – Mark Manson, Harper, $26.99, 9780062457714
- 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
- Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
- I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
- Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
- All Fours – Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
- Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
- One Golden Summer – Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638910
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593422953
- All the Colors of the Dark – Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
- The Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
- Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder – Asako Yuzuki, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063236417
- People We Meet on Vacation – Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
- Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $18, 9780525562047
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
- Didion and Babitz – Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
- All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me – Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
- The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition – Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants – Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 – Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
- Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind – Annalee Newitz, W. W. Norton & Company, $18.99, 9781324110460
- 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
- A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever – Matt Kracht, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797232751
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles – Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431
- 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
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times – Pema Chödrön, Shambhala, $19.95, 9781611803433
MASS MARKET
- 1984 – George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
- Animal Farm – George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757
- The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
- The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
- And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
- Mistborn: The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
- Dune – Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Day the Crayons Made Friends – Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593622360
- Good Night, Gorilla – Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
- The Wild Robot on the Island – Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
- Madeline – Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071
- Bluey and Bingo’s Book of Bugs – Sarah Jospitre, Penguin Young Readers, $12.99, 9780593891247
- Pat the Bunny – Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
- I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book) – Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- We Were Liars (Deluxe Edition) – E. Lockhart, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217118076
- The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel – Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
- Glorious Rivals – Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316481311
- The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel – Maggie Stiefvater, Stephanie Williams, Sas Milledge (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593621189
- Immortal Consequences – I. V. Marie, Delacorte Press, $21.99, 9780593898802
- Better Than the Movies – Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637
- Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe – C. B. Lee, Feiwel & Friends, $14.99, 9781250417336
- Hour of the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas – Megan Shepherd, Random House/Disney, $19.99, 9781368089302
- Smile: A Graphic Novel – Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264
- Odder – Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $16.99, 9781250147424
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Rick Riordan, Hyperion
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
- FunJungle – Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Dog Man – Dav Pilkey, Graphix
- The Summer I Turned Pretty – Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- The Bad Guys – Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
- The Powerless Trilogy – Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- The Wild Robot – Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- The Inheritance Games – Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
