Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Whistler:Ann Patchett, published by Harper.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,June 21, 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
- Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637 - Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216 - Land
Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430 - Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See, Scribner, $29.00, 9781982117054 - Contrapposto
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593803509 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802165176 - The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746 - The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812 - Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385551977 - John of John
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194 - The Midnight Train
Matt Haig, Viking, $30.00, 9780593833377 - Ironwood
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $32.00, 9780316595384 - Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820261 - Red Sheet: A Novel
James Ellroy, Knopf, $35.00, 9780525656814
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839 - Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318 - London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533 - Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28.00, 9780593804148 - Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Simon Six, $26.00, 9781668249970 - How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
Theo Baker, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593832837 - All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
Ben Rhodes, Random House, $35.00, 9780593595121 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27.00, 9780735211292 - The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, W. W. Norton & Company, $35.00, 9781324006848 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593652886 - The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Eric Jay Dolin, Liveright, $27.99, 9781324096320 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13.00, 9781538778005 - The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837994731 - Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Zayd Ayers Dohrn, W. W. Norton & Company, $32.99, 9781324089315
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512 - Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739 - The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - James
Percival Everett, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593686867 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593685778 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Stoner
John Williams, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781590171998 - Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel
Shuang-zi Yang, Graywolf Press, $18.00, 9781644453155 - Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster, $24.99, 9781439195260 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18.00, 9780525559498
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456 - Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li, Picador, $18.00, 9781250437976 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24.00, 9780143129257 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.00, 9780374531386 - It’s Only Drowning: A Memoir
David Litt, Gallery Books, $19.00, 9781668035368 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004 - The Problem Drinker
Kyle Kouri, Clash Books, $19.95, 9781968043070 - Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson, New Harbinger Publications, $18.95, 9781626251700 - Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324130734 - Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Al Pacino, Penguin Books, $22.00, 9780593655139 - The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689 - Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation (Jewish Lives)
Kenneth Turan, Yale University Press, $20.00, 9780300292367 - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20.00, 9780143130147
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11.00, 9780553283686 - Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10.00, 9780553293357 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12.00, 9780399501487 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400 - The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665974523 - Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Grumpy Monkey Father’s Day Fuss
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593709405 - Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274 - Dad
Christian Robinson, Balzer + Bray, $19.99, 9781250397041 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - VÁMONOS: Los Angeles (Bilingual: English/Spanish) (Vámonos Series)
Patty Rodriguez, Ariana Stein, Lil’ Libros, $10.99, 9781948066150
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488 - KPop Demon Hunters: The Movie in Comics: The Official Retelling in Comic Form
Random House, Random House (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99 , 9798217234301 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)
Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412 - Howl’s Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition
Diana Wynne Jones, Greenwillow Books, $24.99, 9780063416468 - Squalo & Mage vs. the Rage of the Bakunawa: A Graphic Novel
Kara Bodegón-Hikino, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063056428 - Encore!: A Graphic Novel
Miles Toriko Burks, HarperAlley, $18.99, 9780063282452 - The Froggy Library
Julie Fiveash, Levine Querido, $15.99, 9781646146505 - Wombat Waiting
Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178 - The Last Immortals: Dawn of the Axolotl
Kit Brooks, Christy Ottaviano Books, $8.99, 9780316601856 - Rialto
Kate Milford, Clarion Books, $19.99, 9781328466914
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- InvestiGators: Weather or Not
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250357915 - Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135548 - Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461 - Dragon Post (Emma Yarlett’s Post Pals #2)
Emma Yarlett, Emma Yarlett (Illus.), Candlewick, $17.99, 9781536251937 - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117 - The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477 - Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338801910 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: Deluxe Edition
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $14.99, 9798217116775 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Deluxe Edition (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781546171898 - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $10.99, 9781442445949
