Best Selling Books of the Week in California

With the new year finally here, we can take a look at a full week and see what the best selling books of the week were. Keep reading to se e which novel topped the list in the first week of 2025!

This list covers California only as the data comes from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA). We will take a look at another list that is national but for this article, we are only looking at California.

The best selling hardcover book of the week was All Fours by Miranda July. The novel was released in May 2024 and I imagine it saw an uptick in sale after making many end of year lists. This is a novel that I will be adding to my to-read list and seeing if the hype is real.

The best selling paperback was Orbital by Samantha Harvey and this list is reflective of the most popular books of the year. You can see the full list below!

Hardcover fiction

• 1. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
• 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
• 3. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
• 4. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• 5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
• 6. The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co.)
• 7. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
• 8. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)
• 9. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
• 10. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square)

Hardcover nonfiction

• 1. Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co)
• 2. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin)
• 3. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery)
• 4. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
• 5. Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik (Scribner)
• 6. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (Crown)
• 7. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
• 8. Patriot by Alexei Navalny (Knopf)
• 9. What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci (Gallery Books)
• 10. Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten (Crown)

Paperback fiction

• 1. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
• 2. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
• 3. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial)
• 4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Vintage)
• 5. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
• 6. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Hogarth)
• 7. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
• 8. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Vintage)
• 9. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books)
• 10. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)

Paperback nonfiction

• 1. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown)
• 2. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage)
• 3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Knopf)
• 4. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow)
• 5. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
• 6. All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)
• 7. The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga (Atria Books)
• 8. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Vintage)
• 9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• 10. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (Harper Perennial)

Conclusion

These are the best selling books of the week in California. How many of these books have you read or plan to read? Let us know in the comments below!

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