The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, March 9, 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. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
3. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
6. Onyx Storm (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649374189
7. Three Days in June
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27, 9780593803486
8. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
9. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
10. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
11. The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600
12. Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley, Crown, $28, 9780593799086
13. The River Has Roots
Amal El-Mohtar, Tordotcom, $24.99, 9781250341082
14. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
15. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. 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
2. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
4. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
5. Golden State: The Making of California
Michael Hiltzik, Mariner Books, $32.5, 9780358539346
6. On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Rick Steves, Rick Steves, $30, 9781641716437
7. I'll Have What She's Having
Chelsea Handler, The Dial Press, $32, 9780593596579
8. 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
9. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
10. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593653111
11. Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks, Viking, $28, 9780593653982
12. How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith
Mariann Edgar Budde, Avery, $28, 9780593539217
13. Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison, Random House, $36, 9780812988871
14. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
15. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
 
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. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
5. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
6. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213
7. Long Island
Colm Toibin, Scribner, $18.99, 9781476785127
8. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
9. Yellowface
R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857
10. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
11. The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
13. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Vintage, $18, 9780593311448
14. Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips, Vintage, $18, 9781101972793
15. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $18, 9781101906118
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
5. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
9. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
10. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
11. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250849359
12. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Kara Swisher, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982163907
13. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
14. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
15. The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781668065969
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
5. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
6. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
7. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
8. The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835618
3. Oathbound
Tracy Deonn, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665951906
4. Hilo Book 11: The Great Space Iguana
Judd Winick, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9780593807095
5. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
6. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
7. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250852403
8. Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel, #8)
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339001234
9. Spy Ski School the Graphic Novel (Spy School the Graphic Novel)
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665956604
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
11. I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860
12. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
13. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
14. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
15. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741032
16. I Am Glinda (Little Golden Book)
Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896884
17. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
18. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
19. The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly, Greenwillow Books, $19.99, 9780063337312
20. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
21. Rise of the Earth Dragon (Dragon Masters, #1)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $5.99, 9780545646239
22. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
23. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
24. Shark Girl
Kate Beaton, Roaring Brook Press, $18.99, 9781250184924
25. Escargot and the Search for Spring
Dashka Slater, Sydney Hanson (Illus.), Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $8.99, 9780374392017