The Northern California Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and
CALIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, December 15, 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. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
3. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
4. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
5. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970
6. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
7. Wind and Truth
Brandon Sanderson, Tor Books, $39.99, 9781250319180
8. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
9. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
10. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
11. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328137
12. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
13. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
14. Water, Water: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $27, 9780593731024
15. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
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. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
6. Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779
7. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
8. Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969
9. Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher, Dey Street Books, $36, 9780062863102
10. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
11. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
12. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
13. Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn (Illus.), One World, $26, 9780593729960
14. Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
Rachel Feder, Tiffany Tatreau, Quirk Books, $19.99, 9781683694748
15. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
2. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
3. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
5. The Hunter
Tana French, Penguin, $19, 9780593493458
6. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
7. The Best American Short Stories 2024
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $19.99, 9780063275959
8. Wicked
Gregory Maguire, William Morrow Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780062852847
9. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118
10. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
11. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
12. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
13. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
14. Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $18.99, 9780593243756
15. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
 
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. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
5. Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide
Jeff Miller, Obi Kaufmann (Illus.), Heyday Books, $35, 9781597146630
6. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286
7. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson, Penguin, $18, 9780593652985
8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
9. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
10. The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932
11. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog, Penguin, $20, 9780593490310
12. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9780984627110
13. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
15. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
2. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
4. Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286
5. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
7. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
9. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686
10. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
 
CHILDREN'S TITLES 
1. Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338896459
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $14.99, 9781419766954
3. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097
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. Unraveled Book 9.5 (Keeper of the Lost Cities)
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $21.99, 9781665967419
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
8. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
9. Santa's First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978
10. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
11. The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732
12. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780544580145
13. The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780316479264
14. The Wild Robot Protects
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316669412
15. The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315
16. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9780763678883
17. The Night Before Christmas
Clement C. Moore, Corinne Malvern (Illus.), Golden Books, $7.99, 9780385384742
18. The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $16.99, 9780063315280
19. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza (The First Cat in Space, #1)
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley, $10.99, 9780063084094
20. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $9.99, 9781368051477
21. Alice in a Winter Wonderland
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593533888
22. Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Elizabeth Partridge, Ellen Heck (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $19.99, 9781452135144
23. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
24. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
25. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203