Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Vigil:George Saunders, 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,February 15, 2026. 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
- Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739 - Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32, 9780593820308 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155 - Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799 - My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820 - This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700 - Clutch
Emily Nemens, Tin House, $28, 9781963108668 - Murder Bimbo
Rebecca Novack, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668214619
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318 - The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366 - Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965 - The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
Paul Fischer, Celadon Books, $32, 9781250878724 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280 - Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411 - The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432 - Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
Keza MacDonald, Knopf, $32, 9780593802687 - Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825 - Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637 - Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254 - Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140 - Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $19, 9798217047369 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644 - Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102 - The Ghosts of Rome
Joseph O’Connor, Europa Editions, $18.95, 9798889661696 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778 - Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620 - Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114 - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490 - The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983 - The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689 - Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Duke University Press, $27.95, 9781478033332 - Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen, Dutton, $20, 9780593476116 - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry, Norton, $19.99, 9780393322231 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495 - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks, Washington Square Press, $19, 9780743456081
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400 - Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare, Washington Square Press, $6.99, 9780743482752 - Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477109 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775 - Little Blue Truck’s Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441 - For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977 - Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - The Sweater: A Story of Community
Larissa Theule, Teagan White (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593528945 - Don’t Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110 - The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $14.99, 9798217111916 - The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907 - The Lions’ Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817 - The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361 - Queen of Faces: Deluxe Edition
Petra Lord, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $22.99, 9781250362971 - The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Flower Fairies
Megan McDonald, Lenny Wen (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9781536243949 - Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362 - An Unofficial Guided Journal for Fans of KPop Demon Hunters: Besties Forever!
Editors of Media Lab Books, Media Lab Books, $12.99, 9781964487663
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - The First Cat in Space
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic
