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 28, 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
- All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The Book of Elsewhere
Keanu Reeves, China Miéville, Del Rey, $30, 9780593446591 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282 - The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman, Viking, $35, 9780735224049 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063345164 - A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva, Harper, $32, 9780063384200 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - The Black Bird Oracle
Deborah Harkness, Ballantine Books, $32, 9780593724774 - I Was A Teenage Slasher
Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $29.99, 9781668022245 - All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, $27, 9780385549936 - Play a Bigger Game: Seven Universal Principles to Experience True Fulfillment and Win at Life
Markus Kaulius, Amplify Publishing, $28, 9798891380073 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824 - The Art of Encouragement: How to Lead Teams, Spread Love, and Serve from the Heart
Jordan Montgomery, Wiley, $28, 9781394234479 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260 - The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 - On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service
Anthony Fauci, M.D., Viking, $36, 9780593657478 - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598 - The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
Jesse Katz, Astra House, $28, 9781662601736 - When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow, Doubleday, $32.5, 9780385548755 - The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, Harper, $29.99, 9780063073852
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933 - Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $17, 9781400078776 - The Exchange
John Grisham, Vintage, $18, 9780593685280 - The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987 - Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Penguin, $18, 9780593490716 - Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624 - Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757 - Wellness
Nathan Hill, Vintage, $19, 9780593469835 - A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $20, 9780399588600 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott, Vintage, $17, 9780385480017 - World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers, Crown, $19, 9780593139028 - The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, $17, 9781577314806 - What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $19, 9780593298909
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Fire & Blood
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780593598016 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - True Love
Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala, $6.99, 9781590304044 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - The Yellow Bus
Loren Long, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250903136 - Bluey: The Pool
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685 - Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071 - Where’s Waldo?
Martin Handford, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210651 - Where’s the Cat?
Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536229844 - The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Ocean Hide & Seek
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $12.99, 9780593659137 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein, Harper, $19.99, 9780060256654
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - Youth Group
Jordan Morris, Bowen McCurdy (Illus.), First Second, $17.99, 9781250789235 - Reckless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665955430 - The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton, Puffin, $12.99, 9780140385724 - A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272 - Gamerville
Johnnie Christmas, HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063056817 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880 - Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan, Puffin, $9.99, 9780142422861 - Swim School: A Bluey Storybook
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593752791
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Scholastic - Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic
