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,July 19, 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 Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430 - Country People
Daniel Mason, Random House, $30.00, 9798217197453 - It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $29.00, 9798217179152 - The Midnight Train
Matt Haig, Viking, $30.00, 9780593833377 - The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746 - Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820261 - Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See, Scribner, $29.00, 9781982117054 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802165176 - Crash Into Me
Robinne Lee, St. Martin’s Press, $30.00, 9781250412751 - John of John
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194 - The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820285
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246 - 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 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593652886 - The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World
Brian Tyler Cohen, Harper, $28.99, 9780063495104 - You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Rachel Aviv, Knopf, $30.00, 9780525657057 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28.00, 9780593804148 - 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 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 - Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27.00, 9780593994825 - The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22.00, 9781668209028 - 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
Liaquat Ahamed, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9781594204173 - How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
Theo Baker, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593832837
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250 - Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593831892 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $20.00, 9781668075098 - The Beginning of Everything
Charles Salzberg, Regalo Press, $18.99, 9798895656594 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593685778 - The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624 - The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465 - Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111 - Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $18.00, 9780593311295
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
Eve Babitz, New York Review Books, $18.95, 9781681379593 - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226 - It’s Only Drowning: A Memoir
David Litt, Gallery Books, $19.00, 9781668035368 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18.00, 9781400078431 - Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
M.D. van der Kolk, Bessel, Penguin Books, $19.00, 9780143127741 - The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-Four Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic
Phil Cousineau, New World Library, $19.95, 9781955831277 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24.00, 9780143129257
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345337665 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Story Rug
Sophie Blackall, Phoebe Wahl (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316535380 - The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887 - Don’t Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - 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 - Mac & Cheese: The Origin Story
Michael L. Benner, Alison Hawkins (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781546140764 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Where’s Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780316593083 - Offside: A Graphic Novel
Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Mari Costa (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339023601 - The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763642686 - KPop Demon Hunters: The Movie in Comics: The Official Retelling in Comic Form
Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9798217234301 - The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-sitter Summer
Ann M. Martin, Becky Albertalli, Coe Booth, Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9781546171379 - The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488 - The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illus.), Yearling, $8.99, 9780394820378 - Howl’s Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition
Diana Wynne Jones, Greenwillow Books, $24.99, 9780063416468 - The Dark and Other Scary Stories
Max Brallier, Letizia Rubegni (Illus.), Scholastic, $14.99, 9798225049621 - The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
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 - Unico: Lost (Volume 3): An Original Manga (Unico Awakening #3)
Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781546111214 - 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 - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117 - Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461 - Yarn Is Everything! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961141 - Caraval
Stephanie Garber, Flatiron Books, $11.99, 9781250095268 - Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183
