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 26, 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 - Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy #3)
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385550505 - The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430 - Land
Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648 - The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746 - Country People
Daniel Mason, Random House, $30.00, 9798217197453 - Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See, Scribner, $29.00, 9781982117054 - It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $29.00, 9798217179152 - The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820285 - Contrapposto
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593803509 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802165176 - Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385551977 - Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820261
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246 - 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 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13.00, 9781538778005 - Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326 - The Price of Becoming: The Compounding Practices of High Performance
Ryan Hawk, Harper Edge, $32.00, 9780063483910 - Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee, William Morrow, $28.00, 9780063451070 - The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World
Brian Tyler Cohen, Harper, $28.99, 9780063495104 - Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
Mac Barnett, Little, Brown and Company, $20.00, 9780316601122 - 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 - How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
Theo Baker, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593832837 - No Experience Necessary: Why Betting on Yourself in Your Twenties Is the Best Decision You’ll Ever Make
Ronnen Harary, Crown Currency, $31.00, 9798217087006 - You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Rachel Aviv, Knopf, $30.00, 9780525657057
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250 - Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254 - The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593831892 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461 - James
Percival Everett, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593686867 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593685778 - The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19.00, 9780593466490 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine, $20.00, 9780593598429 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781982112837 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18.00, 9781400078431 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004 - Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
Eve Babitz, New York Review Books, $18.95, 9781681379593 - The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $18.95, 9781771643771 - Meditations: A New Translation
Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (Trans.), Modern Library, $11.00, 9780812968255 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456 - Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Anton Jäger, Verso, $19.95, 9781836742074 - The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $16.00, 9780679744726 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490 - Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li, Picador, $18.00, 9781250437976 - Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22.00, 9781571313560 - Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Phd, Ballantine, $24.00, 9780345396815
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11.00, 9780553283686 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Grumpy Monkey Board Book
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997 - 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 - Summer Pops Up!
Aurore Petit, Phaidon Press, $9.95, 9781837292073 - Pookie and Bean!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9798347111329 - The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665974523 - Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $19.99, 9780553537864 - The Skeleton and the Cat
Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - All the Ice Cream in the Land
Emmy Kastner, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665984515
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- KPop Demon Hunters: The Movie in Comics: The Official Retelling in Comic Form
Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9798217234301 - The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780316593083 - Odder: The Novel
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250423429 - The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: Deluxe Edition
Gareth Hinds, Gareth Hinds (Illus.), Candlewick, $29.99, 9781536254525 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234 - The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488 - What Happened to Those Girls
Carlyn Greenwald, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781464226571 - Holes
Louis Sachar, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440228592 - The Dark and Other Scary Stories
Max Brallier, Letizia Rubegni (Illus.), Scholastic, $14.99, 9798225049621 - The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763642686
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second - The Hunger Games (hardcover and paperback)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - Heartstopper
Alice Oseman, Graphix - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic - Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Gibson Twist, Sammy Savos (Illus.), HarperAlley - Step Into Reading, Step 2
Christy Webster, RH Disney (Illus.), Random House/Disney
