Number One in Hardcover Fiction The Life Impossible:by Matt Haig,
published by Viking.
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 8, 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
- The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Colored Television
Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723760 - Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, $30, 9780385547994 - Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491 - We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak, Knopf, $30, 9780593801710 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145 - The Seventh Veil of Salome
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593600269 - Small Rain
Garth Greenwell, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374279547
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success
Molly Fletcher, Hachette Go, $30, 9780306834196 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260 - The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047 - The Reset Mindset: Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster
Penny Zenker, Amplify Publishing, $19.95, 9798891382299 - Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Random House, $35, 9780593729908 - On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Nate Silver, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594204128 - Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - Upworthy – GOOD PEOPLE: Stories From the Best of Humanity
Gabriel Reilich, Lucia Knell, National Geographic, $28, 9781426223464 - Rebel: Find Yourself by Not Following the Crowd
Graham Cochrane, Matt Holt, $25, 9781637745656 - Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
Casey Means, M.D., Avery, $32, 9780593712641 - Experiencing the American Dream: How to Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money to Create an Extraordinary Life
Mark Matson, Wiley, $29.95, 9781394262045
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933 - A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781455563920 - Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
Eve Babitz, NYRB Classics, $16.95, 9781681370088 - Edge of the Known World
Sheri T. Joseph, SparkPress, $18.99, 9781684632626 - The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Picador, $20, 9781250338259 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
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 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324105817 - The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
Neil Theise, Spiegel & Grau, $20, 9781954118676 - Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Vintage, $17, 9780593315200 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $20, 9780679763888
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $9.99, 9780451465641 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $8.95, 9780679755333 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318572 - The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe, Signet, $5.95, 9780451530318
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Good Night Thoughts
Max Greenfield, James Serafino (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593697894 - Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - Bluey: Queens
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750872 - Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Cookie Time
Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665936743 - The Dictionary Story
Oliver Jeffers, Sam Winston, Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536235500 - Corduroy
Don Freeman, Viking Children’s Books, $7.99, 9780451470799 - ABCs of California
Sandra Magsamen, Hometown World, $12.99, 9781728243283
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Unico: Awakening (Volume 1): An Original Manga
Tezuka Osamu, Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339036335 - Celestial Monsters
Aiden Thomas, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250822086 - The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $16.99, 9781338839999 - A Banh Mi for Two
Trinity Nguyen, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $12.99, 9781250910837 - Compound Fracture
Andrew Joseph White, Peachtree Teen, $19.99, 9781682636121 - Finally Seen
Kelly Yang, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9781534488342 - A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943 - The Frindle Files
Andrew Clements, Random House Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780399557637 - A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272 - Such Charming Liars
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593485057
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, 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 - Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
