The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, June 8, 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.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid
2. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong
3. James: Percival Everett
4. Never Flinch: Stephen King
5. Great Big Beautiful Life: Emily Henry
6. My Friends: Fredrik Backman
7. Fever Beach: Carl Hiaasen
8. Nightshade: Michael Connelly
9. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
10. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
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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. Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again: Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
3. Shoveling $H!t: A Love Story about the Entrepreneur’s Messy Path to Success: Kass Lazerow, Michael Lazerow
4. Notes to John: Joan Didion
5. Abundance: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
6. The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour: James Patterson
7. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin: Steve Martin
8. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir: Keith McNally
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green
10. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.)
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Problematic Summer Romance: Ali Hazelwood
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
3. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
4. All Fours: Miranda July
5. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
7. One Golden Summer: Carley Fortune
8. Parable of the Sower: Octavia E. Butler
9. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: Ocean Vuong
10. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
3. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
4. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides,
7. Just Kids: Patti Smith
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution: Cat Bohannon
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion
10. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
3. Animal Farm: George Orwell
4. Lord of the Flies: William Golding
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
6. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
7. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
8. The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Day the Crayons Made Friends: Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.)
2. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!: Dr. Seuss
3. Odder: An Otter’s Story: Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.)
4. Goodnight Moon: Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
5. Papa Doesn’t Do Anything!: Jimmy Fallon, Miguel Ordóñez (Illus.)
6. The Bakery Dragon: Devin Elle Kurtz
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Eric Carle
8. Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak
9. Love, Dad: Inspiring Notes from Fathers to Kids: Dr. Joel Warsh, Andrew Gardner, David Cooper (Illus.)
10. Will the Pigeon Graduate?: Mo Willems