The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, December 8, 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 IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. Wind and Truth
Brandon Sanderson, Tor Books, $39.99, 9781250319180
3. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
4. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970
5. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
6. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
7. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
8. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
9. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
10. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328137
11. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
12. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
13. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
14. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
15. Water, Water: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $27, 9780593731024
 
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. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
4. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
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. Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779
9. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
10. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996
11. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
13. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
14. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $29.99, 9781668065488
15. Freedom: Memoirs 1954 — 2021
Angela Merkel, St. Martin's Press, $40, 9781250319906
 
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 Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
5. The Hunter
Tana French, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593493458
6. Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $18.99, 9780593243756
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
8. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118
9. Wicked
Gregory Maguire, William Morrow Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780062852847
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 Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
13. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
14. This Is Happiness
Niall Williams, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18.99, 9781635576313
15. Absolution
Alice McDermott, Picador, $19, 9781250337993
 
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 the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
6. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
7. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
8. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
9. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250849359
10. Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area
Olivia Allen-Price, Chronicle Books, $15.95, 9781797214368
11. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767
12. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
13. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
14. Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide
Jeff Miller, Obi Kaufmann (Illus.), Heyday Books, $35, 9781597146630
15. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
 
MASS MARKET 
1. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
2. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
6. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
7. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $9.99, 9781250773012
8. Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365309
9. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
10. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553208849
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. Unraveled Book 9.5 (Keeper of the Lost Cities)
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $21.99, 9781665967419
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
4. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
5. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
6. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
7. Santa's First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978
8. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
10. The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732
11. The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063315280
12. Alice in a Winter Wonderland
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593533888
13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
14. Haunting of the Ghost Dragon (Dragon Masters, #27)
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic, $6.99, 9781339022406
15. Peekaboo: Santa
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick, $9.99, 9781536237634
16. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
17. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781368107631
18. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
19. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780544580145
20. Chicka Chicka Ho Ho Ho
William Boniface, Julien Chung (Illus.), Beach Lane Books, $18.99, 9781665954761
21. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
22. Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526
23. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
24. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
25. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896435