Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

Published on Jul 22, 2024

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

  1. Long Island Compromise
    Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491
  2. All Fours
    Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
  3. James
    Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
  4. The God of the Woods
    Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
  5. The Women
    Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633
  6. The Paris Novel
    Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302
  7. The Midnight Feast
    Lucy Foley, William Morrow, $30, 9780063003101
  8. A Death in Cornwall
    Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384200
  9. Funny Story
    Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
  10. All the Colors of the Dark
    Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874
  11. Table for Two: Fictions
    Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
  12. Bury Your Gays
    Chuck Tingle, Tor Nightfire, $26.99, 9781250874658
  13. The Lion Women of Tehran
    Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $28.99, 9781668036587
  14. Same As It Ever Was
    Claire Lombardo, Doubleday, $30, 9780385549554
  15. Swan Song
    Elin Hilderbrand, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316258876

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
    Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
  2. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
    Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824
  3. On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service
    Anthony Fauci, M.D., Viking, $36, 9780593657478
  4. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
    Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
  5. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
    Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598
  6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
  7. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292
  8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
  9. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
    Maureen Callahan, Little, Brown and Company, $32.5, 9780316276177
  10. We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: (tips, tales, travels)
    Gary Janetti, Harper, $27.99, 9780063329744
  11. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
    Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
  12. Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
    Ryan Holiday, Portfolio, $28, 9780593191712
  13. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
    Carrie Courogen, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250279224
  14. Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
    Paul Haddad, Santa Monica Press, $29.95, 9781595801272
  15. 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

  1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
  2. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
    Lisa See, Scribner, $18.99, 9781982117092
  3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
    Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
  4. The Thursday Murder Club
    Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
  5. Just for the Summer
    Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
  6. Play It As It Lays
    Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374529949
  7. Normal People
    Sally Rooney, Crown, $17, 9781984822185
  8. The Secret History
    Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702
  9. Not in Love
    Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $19, 9780593550427
  10. The Midnight Library
    Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
  11. Beach Read
    Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
  12. The Nightingale
    Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
  13. The Librarianist
    Patrick deWitt, Ecco, $18.99, 9780063085138
  14. The Alchemist
    Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
  15. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

  1. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
  2. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
    Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
  3. All About Love: New Visions
    bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
  4. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
    Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
  5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
  6. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
    Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
  7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
  8. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
    Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
  9. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
    Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767
  10. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
    Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $19, 9780593298909
  11. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
    Anne Lamott, Vintage, $17, 9780385480017
  12. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
    Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
  13. 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
  14. Poverty, by America
    Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
  15. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
    Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226

MASS MARKET

  1. Mistborn: The Final Empire
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
  2. 1984
    George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
  3. The Catcher in the Rye
    J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
  4. Fire & Blood
    George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780593598016
  5. The Way of Kings
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279
  6. A Game of Thrones
    George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
  7. Neverwhere
    Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062476371
  8. The Well of Ascension
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318572
  9. Lord of the Flies
    William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
  10. American Gods
    Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

  1. Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden
    Christy Mandin, Cartwheel Books, $18.99, 9781339023274
  2. Good Night, Gorilla
    Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
  3. Pat the Bunny
    Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
  4. Bluey: The Pool
    Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685
  5. Where the Wild Things Are
    Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
  6. Where’s Waldo?
    Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651
  7. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
    Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781419768774
  8. This Book Is Definitely Not Cursed
    Megan Woodward, Risa Rodil (Illus.), Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665927987
  9. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
  10. The Octopus Escapes
    Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

  1. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
    Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
  2. The One and Only Family
    Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123
  3. Reckless
    Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665955430
  4. We Were Liars
    E. Lockhart, Ember, $10.99, 9780385741279
  5. Powerless
    Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
  6. Roswell Johnson Saves the World!
    Chris Colfer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316515047
  7. Dry
    Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781481481977
  8. Hello, Universe
    Erin Entrada Kelly, Isabel Roxas (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062414168
  9. Cat on the Run in Cat of Death!
    Aaron Blabey, Scholastic, $7.99, 9781338831825
  10. Swim School: A Bluey Storybook
    Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752791

CHILDREN'S SERIES

  1. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
    Holly Jackson, Ember
  2. The Bad Guys
    Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
  3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Jeff Kinney, Amulet
  4. Legacy of Orïsha
    Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. BYR
  5. Keeper of the Lost Cities
    Shannon Messenger, Aladdin
  6. Dog Man
    Dav Pilkey, Graphix
  7. Magic Tree House
    Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
  8. Wild Robot
    Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  9. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
    Rick Riordan, Hyperion
  10. Who Would Win?
    Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic

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