The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended July 27 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. James: Percival Everett
3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: V. E. Schwab
4. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
5. Great Big Beautiful Life: Emily Henry
6. The Bewitching: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7. An Inside Job: Daniel Silva
8. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong
9. The River Is Waiting: Wally Lamb
10. Culpability: Bruce Holsinger
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. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
4. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green
5. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir: Keith McNally
6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
7. The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century: Tim Weiner
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
9. Is a River Alive?: Robert Macfarlane
10. The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm: George Orwell
2. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
3. 1984: George Orwell
4. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
5. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
6. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
7. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
8. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
10. The Martian Chronicles: Ray Bradbury
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
3. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon
4. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
5. All Fours: Miranda July
6. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
7. All the Colors of the Dark: Chris Whitaker
8. One Golden Summer: Carley Fortune
9. The Safekeep: Yael van der Wouden
10. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros