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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended July 6 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

1. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid

2. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong

3. Great Big Beautiful Life: Emily Henry

4. James: Percival Everett

5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: V. E. Schwab

6. The River Is Waiting: Wally Lamb

7. So Far Gone: Jess Walter

8. My Friends: Fredrik Backman

9. My Name Is Emilia del Valle: Isabel Allende

10. Don’t Let Him In: Lisa Jewell

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

2. Abundance: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

3. Wealthy and Well-Known: Build Your Personal Brand and Turn Your Reputation into Revenue: Rory Vaden, AJ Vaden

4. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds

5. Mark Twain: Ron Chernow

6. Notes to John: Joan Didion

7. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green

8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad

9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin

10. Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success: Jeff Hiller

MASS MARKET

1. 1984: George Orwell

2. Animal Farm: George Orwell

3. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson

4. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton

5. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss

6. Foundation: Isaac Asimov

7. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

8. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde

9. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

10. Hyperion: Dan Simmons

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt

2. All Fours: Miranda July

3. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

4. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

5. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley

6. Creation Lake: A Novel: Rachel Kushner

7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin

8. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

9. Funny Story: Emily Henry

10. The Safekeep: Yael van der Wouden

 

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