Number One in Hardcover Fiction: The Correspondent: Virginia Evans, published by Crown
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,February 22, 2026. 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 Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter
Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $29, 9780593973257 - Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32, 9780593820308 - Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728 - The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kate Quinn, William Morrow, $32, 9780063244788 - So Old, So Young
Grant Ginder, Gallery/Scout Press, $30, 9781668051771 - This Book Made Me Think of You
Libby Page, Berkley, $30, 9798217186990 - Departure(s)
Julian Barnes, Knopf, $27, 9780593804506 - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155 - This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280 - Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318 - The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
Paul Fischer, Celadon Books, $32, 9781250878724 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Jon Meacham, Random House, $38, 9780593597552 - Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
Gisèle Pelicot, Penguin Press, $32, 9798217181322 - 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 - The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013 - Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy, Scribner, $30, 9781668094716 - Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124 - Football
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648 - Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876 - Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140 - Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637 - Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $19, 9798217047369 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254 - The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Picador, $19, 9781250397560 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Lion Beneath the Fade
Sebastian Bastian, Advantage Media Group, $19.99, 9798891882485 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114 - I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257 - The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus, Vintage, $16, 9780525564454 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $18, 9781878424310 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593230077
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - Elantris
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765350374 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765348784 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775 - If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone
Gideon Sterer, Emily Hughes (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063375222 - For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852 - Pat the Bunny Board Book
Dorothy Kunhardt, Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9798217120949 - I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $8.99, 9780375827785 - The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780061074295 - KPop Demon Hunters: The Official Poster Book
Random House Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9798217233960 - Richard Scarry’s Easter Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9798217115921
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $19, 9798217043408 - Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town
Li Chen, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9798881602215 - Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362 - The Lions’ Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817 - Angelica and the Bear Prince: (A Graphic Novel)
Trung Le Nguyen, Random House Graphic, $17.99, 9781984892669 - The Prince and the Dressmaker
Jen Wang, First Second, $17.99, 9781626723634 - The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - Pax
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780062377029
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Valeria Tenaga Romanazzi (Illus.), Aladdin - Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic
