Number One in Hardcover Fiction James:,by Percival Everett,
published by St. Doubleday.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,August 4, 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 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Liars
Sarah Manguso, Hogarth, $28, 9780593241257 - Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302 - The Book of Elsewhere
Keanu Reeves, China Miéville, Del Rey, $30, 9780593446591 - All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063345164 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335430991
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 - 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 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
Fred C. Trump III, Gallery Books, $30, 9781668072172 - An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663 - JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
RoseMarie Terenzio, Liz McNeil, Gallery Books, $30.99, 9781668018514 - When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $27, 9780812988406 - Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Carrie Courogen, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250279224 - The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Olivia Laing, W. W. Norton & Company, $27.99, 9780393882001 - Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Elizabeth Beller, Gallery Books, $29.99, 9781982178963 - Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
Jon M. Chu, Jeremy McCarter, Random House, $32, 9780593448946 - Ugly-Cute: What Misunderstood Animals Can Teach Us about Life
Jennifer McCartney, Harper, $14.99, 9780008527051
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 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431 - This Summer Will Be Different
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638880 - Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324 - The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $17.99, 9780060837020 - A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583 - The Idiot
Elif Batuman, Penguin, $18, 9780143111061 - Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $17, 9781400078776 - Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374529949 - Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090 - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Lisa See, Scribner, $18.99, 9781982117092 - The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400 - The Exchange
John Grisham, Vintage, $18, 9780593685280
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - 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 - Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431 - The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle, New World Library, $17, 9781577314806 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $20, 9780307279286 - Become What You Are
Alan Watts, Shambhala, $18.95, 9781645472865 - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Matthew Perry, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250866455 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dr. Anna Lembke, Dutton, $20, 9781524746742
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296 - Fire & Blood
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780593598016 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - The Shining
Stephen King, Anchor, $9.99, 9780307743657 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $8.99, 9780062459367 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Yellow Bus
Loren Long, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250903136 - I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $7.99, 9780375827785 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781481431217 - Bluey: The Beach
, Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593226094 - Hey! Look at You!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $9.99, 9781665953160 - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905 - Time for School, Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $18.99, 9780358412243 - Good Night California
Adam Gamble, Harvey Stevenson (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190214 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Grandest Game
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316481014 - The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123 - Reckless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665955430 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196 - The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207 - Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884 - The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Puffin, $9.99, 9780147510488 - Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264 - Roswell Johnson Saves the World!
Chris Colfer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316515047 - Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Who Was/Is…?
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic - Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic - Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
Nathan Hale, Amulet - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
