Number One in Hardcover Fiction The Impossible Fortune:,by Richard Osman,
published by Pamela Dorman.

Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,October 5, 2025. This list is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION

The Impossible Fortune — Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653258

What We Can Know — Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728

Katabasis — R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243

The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38, 9780385546898

Alchemised — SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700

Heart the Lover — Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176

The Correspondent — Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155

We Love You, Bunny — Mona Awad, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $30, 9781668059869

Culpability — Bruce Holsinger, Spiegel & Grau, $30, 9781954118966

James — Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369

The Academy — Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316567855

Gray Dawn — Walter Mosley, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316573238

Clown Town — Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641297264

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre — Philip Fracassi, Tor Nightfire, $28.99, 9781250879066

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

107 Days — Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668211656

Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love — Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution — Jill Lepore, Liveright, $39.99, 9781631496080

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About — Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366

Poems & Prayers — Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29, 9781984862105

Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716

I’m Just a Little Guy: How to Escape the Horrors and Get Back to Dillydallying — Charlie James, Paige Tompkins (Illus.), Quirk Books, $14.99, 9781683694946

All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation — Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35, 9780593540985

Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism — Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005

Truly — Lionel Richie, HarperOne, $36, 9780063253643

Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City — Mark Ronson, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538741115

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection — John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572

Abundance — Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488

Guinness World Records 2026 — Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484750

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy — Mary Roach, W. W. Norton & Company, $28.99, 9781324050629

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

I Who Have Never Known Men — Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600

Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228

Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778

The Lion Women of Tehran — Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594

Tell Me Everything — Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593446119

The Frozen River — Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070

Intermezzo — Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560

Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984

Remarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164

All Fours — Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272

The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987

Soul Searching — Lyla Sage, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $18.99, 9780593977774

The Silent Patient — Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703

The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners — Edward P. Jones (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593689608

The City and Its Uncertain Walls — Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession — Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering — Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, $21.99, 9780316581509

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma — Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook — Hampton Sides, Vintage, $19, 9780525565703

The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition — Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257

The White Album: Essays — Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079

All About Love: New Visions — bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me — Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth — Zoë Schlanger, Harper Perennial, $19.99, 9780063073869

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life — William Finnegan, Penguin, $20, 9780143109396

America’s Best Idea: The Separation of Church and State — Randall Balmer, Steerforth, $13.95, 9781586424145

A People’s History of the United States — Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself — Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372

MASS MARKET

Animal Farm — George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342

1984 — George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935

Hyperion — Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One — J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484

Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert T. Kiyosaki, Plata Publishing, $9.99, 9781612681139

And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803

A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716

Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296

Murder at Cape Costumers — Maddie Day, Kensington Cozies, $8.99, 9781496740595

CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED

Room on the Broom — Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409

If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone — Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222

Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween — A.J. Locascio, Laurie Conley (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $14.99, 9781603095617

If We Were Dogs — Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721

Peekaboo: Pumpkin — Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229813

Bluey and Bingo’s Book of Scary Things — Charlie Moon, Penguin Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593891254

If I Built a Town — Chris Van Dusen, Rocky Pond Books, $19.99, 9780593324981

Goodnight Moon — Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617

Good Night, Gorilla — Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035

Baby Pumpkin: Finger Puppet Book — Yu-Hsuan Huang (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797232782

CHILDREN’S INTEREST

Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!) — Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080

From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure — Rick Riordan, Mark Oshiro, Disney Hyperion, $21.99, 9781368109116

Pocket Bear — Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362

Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science) — Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316555296

Fake Skating — Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268

The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2) — Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907

Scarlet Morning — ND Stevenson, Quill Tree Books, $19.99, 9780063210349

Impossible Creatures — Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891

The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel — Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215

Better Than the Movies — Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637

CHILDREN’S SERIES

Diary of a Wimpy Kid — Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams

Dog Man — Dav Pilkey, Graphix

Magic Tree House — Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers

Spy School — Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Warriors Graphic Novels — Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley

The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press

The Twilight Saga — Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Keeper of the Lost Cities — Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin

Elephant & Piggie — Mo Willems, Hyperion

Percy Jackson and the Olympians — Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion