The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, March 2, 2025. Based on reporting from the
independent booksellers of Northern California, the California Independent Booksellers
Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189
3. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
5. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
6. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
7. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
8. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
9. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
10. Isola
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $28.99, 9780593730089
11. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
12. Dream State
Eric Puchner, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550666
13. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
14. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
15. Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley, Crown, $28, 9780593799086
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
2. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
3. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
4. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
5. I'll Have What She's Having
Chelsea Handler, The Dial Press, $32, 9780593596579
6. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
8. Golden State: The Making of California
Michael Hiltzik, Mariner Books, $32.5, 9780358539346
9. Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982
10. 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
11. Aflame: Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593420287
12. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
13. Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871
14. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
15. On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
3. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
4. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
5. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
6. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
7. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
8. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
9. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
10. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $18, 9780593311448
11. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
12. Deep End
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $20, 9780593550441
13. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
14. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $18, 9781101906118
15. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
6. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
7. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
8. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
9. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
10. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
11. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
12. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
14. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593449240
15. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
6. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
7. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
8. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
9. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $9.99, 9781250773012
10. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. Hilo Book 11: The Great Space Iguana
Judd Winick, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593807095
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
4. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
5. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
6. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
8. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
9. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
10. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234
11. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
12. Jamberry
Bruce Degen, HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780694006519
13. London Calling (City Spies, #6)
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932509
14. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
15. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
16. Little Freddie Two Pants: (The Dog with Too Many Pants)
Drew Daywalt, Lucy Ruth Cummins (Illus.), Philomel Books, $19.99, 9780593691427
17. Shark Girl
Kate Beaton, Roaring Brook Press, $18.99, 9781250184924
18. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
19. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
20. Bunny, Bunny Peekaboo
Grace Habib (Illus.), Campbell Books, $9.99, 9781035045358
21. The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063315280
22. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
23. Sweet Valley Twins: Sneaking Out (A Graphic Novel)
Francine Pascal, Claudia Aguirre (Illus.), Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593807200
24. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117
25. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801