Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition):R. F. Kuang,
published by Harper Voyager.
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 31, 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
- Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35, 9780063021471 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - The Magician of Tiger Castle
Louis Sachar, Ace, $30, 9780593952306 - An Inside Job
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384217 - The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593831878 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - The Possession of Alba Díaz
Isabel Cañas, Berkley, $29, 9780593641071 - Culpability
Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966 - The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $29.99, 9781668006399 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - The Dragon Wakes with Thunder
K.X. Song, Ace, $30, 9780593641552 - Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250357465
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 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Robert B. Reich, Knopf, $30, 9780593803288 - A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280 - Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $36, 9780374178710 - It’s Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground
David Litt, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781668035351 - 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 - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572 - Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Peter Ames Carlin, Doubleday, $30, 9780385551533 - 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 - Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream
David M. Lubin, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538739297 - Guinness World Records 2026
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750 - Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
Jim Newton, Random House, $32, 9780593447055
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781681370088 - A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna, Berkley, $19, 9780593439371 - All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $19, 9780593798898
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495 - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147 - 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 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Books, $21, 9780593652848 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703 - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255 - 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 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty-Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions
Francis Weller, North Atlantic Books, $19.95, 9798889842613
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345350688 - The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - The Invisible Parade
Leigh Bardugo, John Picacio, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316295703 - Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373 - The Wild Robot on the Island
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316669467 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997 - Peekaboo: Zoo
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536241433 - Creepy Pair of Underwear!
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781442402980
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - Space Case The Graphic Novel
Stuart Gibbs, Ward Jenkins (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 97816659348173 - The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361 - The Tryout: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741261 - Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264 - Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books, $11.99, 9780735269958 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196 - How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects
Mary Ann Hoberman, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316417129 - Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500 - A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic - The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Scholastic - Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
