Best Selling Books of the Week in California for Week 2

The second week of 2025 has flown by and we now know the best selling books of the week.Keep reading to see which novelmade the list this week!

This list only 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 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. The novel was released in May 2021 and was recently chosen by Oprah for her bookclub.

The best selling paperback was The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides. This was one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 best books of the Year and a book I will be adding to my reading list. You can see the full list below!

Hardcover fiction

• 1. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press)
• 2. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• 3. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
• 4. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
• 5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books)
• 6. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
• 7. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press)
• 8. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
• 9. The Wedding People by Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co)
• 10. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)

Hardcover nonfiction

• 1. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
• 2. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin)
• 3. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery)
• 4. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illustrator) (Scribner)
• 5. Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• 6. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House)
• 7. Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck (The Open Field)
• 8. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House)
• 9. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne)
• 10. Brothers by Alex Van Halen (Harper)

Paperback fiction

• 1. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
• 2. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
• 3. You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue (Riverhead Books)
• 4. The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Hogarth)
• 5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne)
• 6. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Vintage )
• 7. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions)
• 8. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Penguin)
• 9. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (Dial Press Trade Paperback)
• 10. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books)

Paperback nonfiction

• 1. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage)
• 2. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown)
• 3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Knopf)
• 4. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
• 5. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (Crown)
• 6. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow)
• 7. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee)
• 8. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (Harper Perennial)
• 9. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen)
• 10. All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (Simon & Schuster)

Conclusion

These are the best selling books of in California in week two of 2025. How many of these books have you read or plan to read? Let us know in the comments below!

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