The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, November 24, 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 City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
4. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328137
5. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
6. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
7. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
8. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
9. The Waiting
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316563796
10. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
11. Water, Water: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $27, 9780593731024
12. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
13. Time of the Child
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $28.99, 9781639734207
14. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
15. We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
2. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
3. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
4. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
5. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
6. Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969
7. Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher, Dey Street Books, $36, 9780062863102
8. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996
9. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
10. War
Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668052273
11. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $28, 9781419777295
12. Guinness World Records 2025
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484569
13. Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779
14. Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Craig Mundie, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316581295
15. Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Doubleday, $26, 9780385550826
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
2. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
3. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
4. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
5. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
7. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
8. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
9. Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $18.99, 9780593243756
10. The Best American Short Stories 2024
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $19.99, 9780063275959
11. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
12. The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593470619
13. Absolution
Alice McDermott, Picador, $19, 9781250337993
14. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228
15. The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Picador, $20, 9781250338259
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
5. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
7. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593490310
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. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143
12. Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide
Jeff Miller, Obi Kaufmann (Illus.), Heyday Books, $35, 9781597146630
13. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088
14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
15. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade, Verso, $14.95, 9781839762123
 
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. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
6. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
7. The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
9. The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345325815
10. The Secret
Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell, $10.99, 9781984818614
 
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. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
5. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
6. Santa's First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978
7. The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063315280
8. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
9. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
10. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
11. InvestiGators: Class Action
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250849908
12. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
14. Spy School Goes Wild
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665934770
15. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
16. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
17. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
18. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
19. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454952770
20. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza (The First Cat in Space, #1)
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $10.99, 9780063084094
21. Construction Site: A Thankful Night
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Helen Morgan (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797226729
22. The Bad Guys in One Last Thing (The Bad Guys, #20)
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic Paperbacks, $6.99, 9781546111801
23. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
24. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
25. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368107631