Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,December 7, 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 Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155 - The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799 - The Black Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328175 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728 - The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32, 9780385548984 - House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593716380 - Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323 - Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, $30, 9781594206108 - The Proving Ground
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316563826 - The Strength of the Few
James Islington, S&S/Saga Press, $34, 9781982141233
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124 - A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967 - Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825 - The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432 - 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 - Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411 - The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $20, 9781982181314 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781 - Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120 - 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 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843 - The Look
Michelle Obama, Crown, $50, 9780593800706
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
- Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
- The God of the Woods – Liz Moore
- Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
- The Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon
- I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman
- North Woods – Daniel Mason
- The Lion Women of Tehran – Marjan Kamali
- Isola – Allegra Goodman
- Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
- Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls – Haruki Murakami
- The Housemaid – Freida McFadden
- The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition – William Goldman
- Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Art Thief – Michael Finkel
- Kingmaker – Sonia Purnell
- I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
- The Best American Essays 2025 – Jia Tolentino (Ed.)
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Catching the Big Fish – David Lynch
- The Wager – David Grann
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion
- Fight Oligarchy – Senator Bernie Sanders
- Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
- All About Love – bell hooks
- Revenge of the Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- The 2026 Old Farmer’s Almanac – Old Farmer’s Almanac
- City of Quartz – Mike Davis
MASS MARKET
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson
- Mistborn: The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson
- Hyperion – Dan Simmons
- A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
- The Fall of Hyperion – Dan Simmons
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Words of Radiance – Brandon Sanderson
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! – Dr. Seuss
- How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? – Mac Barnett
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
- Knight Owl’s Little Christmas – Christopher Denise
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
- If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone – Gideon Sterer
- The Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
- The Christmas Sweater – Jan Brett
- Smooches! – Sandra Boynton
- Little Blue Truck’s Christmas – Alice Schertle
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell
- The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2) – Katherine Rundell
- Pocket Bear – Katherine Applegate
- The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science – Kate McKinnon
- Xolo – Donna Barba Higuera
- Dragonborn – Struan Murray
- Jingle Bell Jokes for Funny Kids – Gary Panton
- Sisters: A Graphic Novel – Raina Telgemeier
- The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale – Jon Klassen
- Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town – Li Chen
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Keeper of the Lost Cities – Shannon Messenger
- Dog Man – Dav Pilkey
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- Spy School – Stuart Gibbs
- Wings of Fire – Tui T. Sutherland
- Magic Tree House – Mary Pope Osborne
- Elephant & Piggie – Mo Willems
- Dork Diaries – Rachel Renée Russell
- Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
