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 12, 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 - Country People
Daniel Mason, Random House, $30.00, 9798217197453 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430 - Land
Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648 - Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See, Scribner, $29.00, 9781982117054 - The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson, Pamela Dorman Books, $30.00, 9798217059959 - John of John
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194 - The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802165176 - The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed #2)
Brigitte Knightley, Ace, $31.00, 9780593819487 - The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812 - Transcription
Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25.00, 9780374618599 - Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820261 - Six of Crows: A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam
Leigh Bardugo, Insight Editions, $27.99, 9798337404356
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 - Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326 - London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533 - Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246 - You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Rachel Aviv, Knopf, $30.00, 9780525657057 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13.00, 9781538778005 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593652886 - How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
Theo Baker, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593832837 - The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22.00, 9781668209028 - 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 - A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9781984881991 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27.00, 9780735211292 - 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 - 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
- Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254 - The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18.00, 9780525559498 - Taiwan Travelogue
Shuang-zi Yang, Graywolf Press, $18.00, 9781644453155 - The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323 - East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $23.00, 9780142004234 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19.00, 9781635575569 - Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114 - A Marriage at Sea
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.00, 9780374531386 - Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
Eve Babitz, New York Review Books, $18.95, 9781681379593 - It’s Only Drowning: A Memoir
David Litt, Gallery Books, $19.00, 9781668035368 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li, Picador, $18.00, 9781250437976 - 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 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36.00, 9780593536131 - A Resistance History of the United States
Tad Stoermer, Steerforth, $19.95, 9781586424367 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22.00, 9780385348768 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24.00, 9780143129257 - Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi, Pantheon, $18.00, 9780375714573 - A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion
Frédéric Gros, Verso, $19.95, 9781804294185
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935 - 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 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12.00, 9780399501487 - The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #2)
Dan Simmons, Bantam, $11.00, 9780553288209 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Corduroy
Don Freeman, Viking Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780451470799 - Fireworks
Matthew Burgess, Cátia Chien (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063216723 - The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887 - Chirri & Chirra, Under the Sea
Kaya Doi, Enchanted Lion, $16.95, 9781592703029 - Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775 - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Slide and Find (Brown Bear and Friends)
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Priddy, $12.99, 9780312509262 - Chirri & Chirra, Among the Cherry Blossoms
Kaya Doi, David Boyd (Transl.), Enchanted Lion, $16.99, 9781592704828 - Grumpy Monkey Board Book
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488 - 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 - The Last Immortals: Dawn of the Axolotl
Kit Brooks, Christy Ottaviano Books, $8.99, 9780316601856 - Wombat Waiting
Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178 - KPop Demon Hunters: The Movie in Comics: The Official Retelling in Comic Form
, Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9798217234301 - Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362 - The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $8.99, 9780394820378 - The Missing Magic of Sparrow Xia (An Illustrated Novel)
Leia Ham, Scholastic Press, $16.99, 9781546150923 - The Lions’ Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Heartstopper #6: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $19.99, 9781546102441 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063450882 - The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-sitter Summer
Ann M. Martin, Becky Albertalli, Coe Booth, Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9781546171379 - 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 - One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $12.99, 9781524714758 - The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #1)
Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, $10.99, 9781368051477 - The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire #1)
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic, $8.99, 9781338883190 - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316581097 - Once Upon a Tim
Stuart Gibbs, Chris Choi (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9781534499263
