The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended July 26 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. Whistler: Ann Patchett
2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce): Caro Claire Burke
3. Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy #3): Colson Whitehead
4. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett
5. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
6. Land: Maggie O’Farrell
7. The Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout
8. Country People: Daniel Mason
9. Daughters of the Sun and Moon: Lisa See
10. It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories: Sigrid Nunez
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
2. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
3. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: Patrick Radden Keefe
4. The Land and Its People: Essays: David Sedaris
5. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
6. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham
7. The Price of Becoming: The Compounding Practices of High Performance: Ryan Hawk
8. Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir: Isabel Klee
9. The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World: Brian Tyler Cohen
10. Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children: Mac Barnett
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Odyssey: Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.)
2. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
3. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
5. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong
6. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
7. James: Percival Everett
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
10. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce): Sophie Elmhirst
2. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
3. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
4. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton
5. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were): Eve Babitz
6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World: Peter Wohlleben
7. Meditations: A New Translation: Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays (Trans.)
8. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
9. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences: Anton Jäger
10. The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin