The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, December 1, 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. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970
3. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
4. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
5. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328137
6. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
7. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
8. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
9. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
10. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
11. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
12. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
13. Water, Water: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $27, 9780593731024
14. The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277
15. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335430991
 
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. Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779
5. Cher: The Memoir, Part One 
Cher, Dey Street Books, $36, 9780062863102
6. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
7. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
8. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
10. Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969
11. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
12. Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Doubleday, $26, 9780385550826
13. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $29.99, 9781668065488
14. 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
15. What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
Sy Montgomery, Atria Books, $22.99, 9781668047361
 
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. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
9. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
10. The Best American Short Stories 2024
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $19.99, 9780063275959
11. Wicked [Movie Tie-in]
Gregory Maguire, William Morrow Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780062852847
12. Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $18.99, 9780593243756
13. The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593470619
14. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
15. The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702
 
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. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
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. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9780984627110
9. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
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. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99, 9780062316110
14. Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088
15. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553293357
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
7. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
8. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
9. The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125
10. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
2. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
3. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
4. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368107631
6. The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063315280
7. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
8. Santa's First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978
9. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
10. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435
11. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
12. Spy School Goes Wild
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665934770
13. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454952770
14. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
15. 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
16. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
17. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
18. Little Fir Tree: Finger Puppet Book
Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797228099
19. Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526
20. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
21. Peekaboo: Santa
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536237634
22. InvestiGators: Class Action
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250849908
23. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember, $10.99, 9781984896391
24. Giraffes Can't Dance: Jingle Bells
Giles Andreae, Guy Parker-Rees (Illus.), Cartwheel Books, $8.99, 9781339045634
25. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9781442421837