The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, November 17, 2024. Based on reporting 
from the independent booksellers of Northern California, the California Independent
Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328137
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
4. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
5. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
6. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
7. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
8. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
9. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
10. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
11. The Waiting
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316563796
12. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
13. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277
14. The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $32, 9780063277052
15. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $30, 9780593798607
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
2. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
3. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
4. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
5. Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969
6. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $29.99, 9781668065488
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
8. What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
Sy Montgomery, Atria Books, $22.99, 9781668047361
9. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996
10. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
11. Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Doubleday, $26, 9780385550826
12. War
Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668052273
13. Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779
14. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $28, 9781419777295
15. Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn (Illus.), One World, $26, 9780593729960
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
2. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
3. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
4. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118
5. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
6. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. The Best American Short Stories 2024
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $19.99, 9780063275959
9. Absolution
Alice McDermott, Picador, $19, 9781250337993
10. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
11. The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593470619
12. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
13. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064
14. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
15. The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco
Michelle Chouinard, Minotaur Books, $18, 9781250909992
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
4. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
5. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143
8. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
Bill McKibben, Jaime Green (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063333994
9. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
12. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99, 9780062316110
13. Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area
Olivia Allen-Price, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797214368
14. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
15. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593490310
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
3. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686
6. Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665
7. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
8. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
9. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
10. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
2. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
3. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
4. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
5. The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063315280
6. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
7. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
8. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368107631
9. Santa's First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978
10. Skyshade (The Lightlark Saga Book 3)
Alex Aster, Amulet Books, $22.99, 9781419773785
11. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
12. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
13. Construction Site: A Thankful Night
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Helen Morgan (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797226729
14. Kristy and the Walking Disaster: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix, #16)
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338835557
15. InvestiGators: Class Action
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250849908
16. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
17. Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526
18. Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Elizabeth Partridge, Ellen Heck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $19.99, 9781452135144
19. My Little Golden Book About San Francisco
Toyo Tyler, Courtney Dawson (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593301180
20. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
21. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
22. Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797226552
23. Dork Diaries 16: Tales from a Not-So-Bratty Little Sister
Rachel Renée Russell, Aladdin, $14.99, 9781665974608
24. The Little Chefs
Rosemary Wells, Hippo Park, $18.99, 9781662640711
25. The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732