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,September 1, 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 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - 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 Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302 - By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593497210 - The Book of Bill
Alex Hirsch, Hyperion Avenue, $26.99, 9781368092203 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874 - There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak, Knopf, $30, 9780593801710 - The Dark Wives
Ann Cleeves, Minotaur Books, $29, 9781250836847 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - 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 - On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Nate Silver, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594204128 - Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
Anna Marie Tendler, Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668032343 - Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs
Luis Elizondo, William Morrow, $29.99, 9780063235564 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Daniel J. Levitin, W. W. Norton & Company, $32.50, 9781324036180 - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 - Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
Brian Tyler Cohen, Harper, $27.99, 9780063392885 - When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $27, 9780812988406 - The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781668055960 - The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323 - Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090 - The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228 - The Other Half
Charlotte Vassell, Vintage, $18, 9780593685969 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - Long Live Evil
Sarah Rees Brennan, Orbit, $19.99, 9780316568715
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - 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 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis, Verso, $21.95, 9781786635891 - The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739 - 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 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324105817 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716 - The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde, Signet, $4.95, 9780451531896 - The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - Carrie
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743664 - Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477109
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Yellow Bus
Loren Long, Roaring Brook Press, $19.99, 9781250903136 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905 - The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - I’m Sorry You Got Mad
Kyle Lukoff, Julie Kwon (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593462911 - What Can a Mess Make?
Bee Johnson, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $18.99, 9781250900241 - Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718 - Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden
Christy Mandin, Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781339023274 - Bluey: The Pool
Penguin Young Readers, $4.99, 9780593385685
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - A Banh Mi for Two
Trinity Nguyen, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $12.99, 9781250910837 - The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123 - Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow, Ember, $10.99, 9781101934746 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203 - The Grandest Game
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316481014 - Cloud Puppy
Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127 - The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763680893 - Unico: Awakening (Volume 1): An Original Manga
Tezuka Osamu, Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339036335
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- 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 - Who Was/Is…?
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - Arc of a Scythe
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
