
Number One in Hardcover Fiction Long Island Compromise:,by Taffy Brodesser, published by Random House.
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 14, 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
- Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302 - The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley, William Morrow, $30, 9780063003101 - A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384200 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282 - All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370 - Bury Your Gays
Chuck Tingle, Tor Nightfire, $26.99, 9781250874658 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $28.99, 9781668036587 - Same As It Ever Was
Claire Lombardo, Doubleday, $30, 9780385549554 - Swan Song
Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316258876
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- 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 - 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 - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Maureen Callahan, Little, Brown and Company, $32.5, 9780316276177 - We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: (tips, tales, travels)
Gary Janetti, Harper, $27.99, 9780063329744 - Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416 - Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
Ryan Holiday, Portfolio, $28, 9780593191712 - Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Carrie Courogen, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250279224 - Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
Paul Haddad, Santa Monica Press, $29.95, 9781595801272 - A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $32.50, 9781501183058
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Lisa See, Scribner, $18.99, 9781982117092 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987 - Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431 - Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374529949 - Normal People
Sally Rooney, Crown, $17, 9781984822185 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - Not in Love
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $19, 9780593550427 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734 - The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400 - The Librarianist
Patrick deWitt, Ecco, $18.99, 9780063085138 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933
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 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - 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 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767 - What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $19, 9780593298909 - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott, Vintage, $17, 9780385480017 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan, Penguin, $18, 9780735225282 - Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933 - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226
MASS MARKET
- Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Fire & Blood
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780593598016 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716 - Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062476371 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318572 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden
Christy Mandin, Cartwheel Books, $18.99, 9781339023274 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Bluey: The Pool
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Where’s Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651 - Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781419768774 - This Book Is Definitely Not Cursed
Megan Woodward, Risa Rodil (Illus.), Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665927987 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123 - Reckless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665955430 - We Were Liars
E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279 - Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884 - Roswell Johnson Saves the World!
Chris Colfer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316515047 - Dry
Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781481481977 - Hello, Universe
Erin Entrada Kelly, Isabel Roxas (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062414168 - Cat on the Run in Cat of Death!
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $7.99, 9781338831825 - Swim School: A Bluey Storybook
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752791
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Legacy of Orïsha
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. BYR - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic