Number One in Hardcover Fiction:The Secret of Secrets:Dan Brown,
published byDoubleday.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,October 26, 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
- The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898 - The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984 - The Proving Ground
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316563826 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728 - Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108 - King Sorrow
Joe Hill, William Morrow, $40, 9780062200600 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - Twice
Mitch Albom, Harper, $26.99, 9780062406682 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243 - A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $29, 9780593804872 - The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258 - Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120 - 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - 107 Days
Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656 - Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Joyce Vance, Dutton, $28, 9798217178117 - Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843 - To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
Bret Baier, Mariner Books, $32.99, 9780063360754 - Finding My Way: A Memoir
Malala Yousafzai, Atria Books, $30, 9781668054277 - I Wrote This for Attention
Lukas Gage, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668080078 - Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781 - Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668066898 - Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow, MCD, $30, 9780374619329 - Bring Me the Head of Joaquin Murrieta: The Bandit Chief Who Terrorized California and Launched the Legend of Zorro
John Boessenecker, Hanover Square Press, $32, 9781335007032 - Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone’s Favorite Food
Joshua McFadden, Artisan, $40, 9781648291920
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - Mate
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593952580 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560 - Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324123736 - The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006 - Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer, Picador, $18, 9781250824042 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - Witches of Honeysuckle House
Liz Parker, Alcove Press, $19.99, 9798892421997 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778 - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin, $19, 9780525522133
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- 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 - Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161 - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257 - The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593656341 - Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509 - Then Again
Diane Keaton, Random House, $18, 9780812980950 - The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593243923 - The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus, Vintage, $16, 9780525564454 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $8.95, 9780553211757 - The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pocket, $9.99, 9781982146702
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Hansel and Gretel
Stephen King, Maurice Sendak (Illus.), HarperCollins, $26.99, 9780062644695 - Glitter Kittens
William Joyce, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $19.99, 9781665959902 - Corduroy Gives Thanks
Don Freeman, John Joseph (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780593694152 - Archibald and the Furry Dinosaurs
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9780593811962 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721 - Baby Turkey: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232799 - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Peanuts)
Charles M. Schulz, Scott Jeralds (Illus.), Simon Spotlight, $7.99, 9781665972208
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $21.99, 9781368109116 - Scarlet Morning
ND Stevenson, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063210349 - The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907 - Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080 - The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215 - A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
María Dolores Águila, Roaring Brook Press, $17.99, 9781250342614 - Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science)
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316555296 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Book of Dust
Philip Pullman, Knopf Books for Young Readers - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Chris Chalik (Illus.), Scholastic - Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
