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 30, 2024. 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
- James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley, William Morrow, $30, 9780063003101 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063345164 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Same As It Ever Was
Claire Lombardo, Doubleday, $30, 9780385549554 - All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874 - Middle of the Night
Riley Sager, Dutton, $30, 9780593472378 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House, $28, 9780593597033 - The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302 - Eruption
Michael Crichton, James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316565073 - Lies and Weddings
Kevin Kwan, Doubleday, $29, 9780385546294
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service
Anthony Fauci, M.D., Viking, $36, 9780593657478 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Bill Maher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668051351 - Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416 - Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, Zando-Crooked Media Reads, $28, 9781638931430 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260 - Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
Paul Haddad, Santa Monica Press, $29.95, 9781595801272 - Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
Maggie Mertens, Algonquin Books, $30, 9781643753355 - The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Ray Kurzweil, Viking, $35, 9780399562761 - The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Olivia Laing, W. W. Norton & Company, $27.99, 9780393882001 - When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow, Doubleday, $32.50, 9780385548755 - The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman, Portfolio, $29, 9780735211735
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Not in Love
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $19, 9780593550427 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Lisa See, Scribner, $18.99, 9781982117092 - Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374529949 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933 - Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - This Summer Will Be Different
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638880 - A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583 - Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431 - A Novel Love Story
Ashley Poston, Berkley, $19, 9780593640975 - The Guest
Emma Cline, Random House, $18, 9780812988031 - The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $19, 9780593298909 - Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza, Hogarth, $18, 9780593244111 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781668065969 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99, 9780062316110 - Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan, Penguin, $19, 9780143109396
MASS MARKET
- Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716 - The Secret
Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell, $10.99, 9781984818614 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345538987 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905 - Good Night California
Adam Gamble, Harvey Stevenson (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190214 - The Yellow Bus
Loren Long, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250903136 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Bluey: The Pool
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685 - Little Seed
Benson Shum, Little Simon, $8.99, 9781665902946
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Swim School: A Bluey Storybook
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752791 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880 - The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123 - The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207 - The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
Nicholas Day, Brett Helquist (Illus.), Random House Studio, $19.99, 9780593643846 - Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White, Harper, $10.99, 9780064400558 - Sink or Swim: A Graphic Novel
Veronica Agarwal, Lee Durfey-Lavoie, Random House Graphic, $14.99, 9781984897022 - The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544340688 - Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - Legacy of Orïsha
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. BYR - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Five Nights at Freddy’s
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper, Scholastic - Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic - Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic