Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Yesteryear (Indies Introduce):Caro Claire Burke, published by Knopf.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,July 5, 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
- Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216 - Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637 - The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812 - Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See, Scribner, $29.00, 9781982117054 - The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $30.00, 9798217059959 - Land
Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648 - The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430 - Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385551977 - Contrapposto
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593803509 - Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820261 - The Midnight Train
Matt Haig, Viking, $30.00, 9780593833377 - Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28.00, 9780374619237 - Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman, Tor Nightfire, $29.99, 9781250439208 - Six of Crows: A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam
Leigh Bardugo, Insight Editions, $27.99, 9798337404356
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- 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 - The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839 - Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326 - Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246 - This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Craig Fehrman, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35.00, 9781982174248 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 - 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 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593652886 - Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future
Rye Barcott, Bloomsbury Publishing, $32.00, 9798260200575 - The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government
Barbara McQuade, Seven Stories Press, $35.00, 9781644215555 - All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
Ben Rhodes, Random House, $35.00, 9780593595121 - The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, W. W. Norton & Company, $35.00, 9781324006848 - 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 - On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear
Julia Angwin, Ami Fields-Meyer, Mariner Books, $28.99, 9780063491946
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254 - Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739 - Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519 - East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $23.00, 9780142004234 - The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250 - The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593469804 - Taiwan Travelogue
Shuang-zi Yang, Graywolf Press, $18.00, 9781644453155 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Vintage, $20.00, 9798217007943 - Red Rising
Pierce Brown, Del Rey, $18.00, 9780345539809 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18.00, 9780525559498 - Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522 - Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
Eve Babitz, New York Review Books, $18.95, 9781681379593 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456 - It’s Only Drowning: A Memoir
David Litt, Gallery Books, $19.00, 9781668035368 - The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late
Cory Doctorow, MCD, $18.00, 9780374621568 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.00, 9780374531386 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin Books, $19.00, 9780143127741 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22.00, 9780307279286 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24.00, 9780143129257 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470 - Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Maggie Smith, Washington Square Press, $19.00, 9781982170899 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490 - Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
John Cassidy, Picador, $27.00, 9781250412003 - I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - It’s My Bird-Day!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454999621 - Sing the 50 United States!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217228560 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - Fire Truck (Wheelie Books)
, DK Children, $8.99, 9780789497123 - The Going to Bed Book
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $6.99, 9780671449025 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Good Night California (Good Night Our World)
Adam Gamble, Harvey Stevenson (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190214
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Odder: The Novel
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250423429 - The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488 - A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943 - KPop Demon Hunters: The Movie in Comics: The Official Retelling in Comic Form
, Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9798217234301 - Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546151210 - Don’t Close This Book! (Disney/Pixar Toy Story 5)
Phaea Crede, Satoshi Hashimoto (Illus.), Random House/Disney, $17.99, 9781368117937 - Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
Rex Ogle, Dave Valeza (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338575071 - Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637 - The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907 - What Happened to Those Girls
Carlyn Greenwald, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781464226571
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882 - 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 - Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book 1)
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781442472433 - The 13-Story Treehouse (The Treehouse Books)
Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250070654 - The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780759555402 - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $10.99, 9781442445949 - A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits)
Lisa Yee, Dan Santat (Illus.), Yearling, $8.99, 9781984830319 - The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9781665922074 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695
