The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, August 17, 2025. 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.

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HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong

2. Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid

3. James, Percival Everett

4. The Wedding People, Alison Espach

5. My Friends, Fredrik Backman

6. Not Quite Dead Yet, Holly Jackson

7. Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy

8. The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

9. An Inside Job, Daniel Silva

10. Culpability, Bruce Holsinger

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About,

Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

2. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, Robert B. Reich

3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin

4. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, John Green,

5. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck, Sophie Elmhirst

6. Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening, Jim Newton

7. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, Scott Anderson

8. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run, Peter Ames Carlin

9. Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream, David M. Lubin

10. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir, Keith McNally

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar

2. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

3. Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

4. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

5. I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman

6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride

7. Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout

8. The Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali

9. All Fours, Miranda July

10. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman

MASS MARKET 

1. 1984, George Orwell

2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

3. The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson

4. Animal Farm, George Orwell

5. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987

6. Hyperion, Dan Simmons

7. Mistborn: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson

8. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

9. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

10. Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765360038