This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended July 28 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. All Fours: Miranda July
2. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
3. Long Island Compromise: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
4. James: Percival Everett
5. The Book of Elsewhere: Keanu Reeves, China Miéville
6. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Women: Kristin Hannah
8. Funny Story: Emily Henry
9. The Bright Sword: Lev Grossman
10. Sandwich: Catherine Newman
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World: Anne Applebaum
3. Play a Bigger Game: Seven Universal Principles to Experience True Fulfillment and Win at Life: Markus Kaulius
4. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir: Griffin Dunne
5. The Art of Encouragement: How to Lead Teams, Spread Love, and Serve from the Heart: Jordan Montgomery
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War: Erik Larson
9. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
10. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
3. Fire & Blood: George R.R. Martin
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
5. Dune: Frank Herbert
6. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie
7. The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. True Love: Thich Nhat Hanh
9. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
10. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
3. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
4. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro
7. The Exchange: John Grisham
8. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
9. Pineapple Street: Jenny Jackson
10. Trust: Hernan Diaz
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Hillbilly Elegy: J.D. Vance
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
3. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
4. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017: Rashid Khalidi
5. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir: Dolly Alderton
6. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI: David Grann
7. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
8. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted: Suleika Jaouad
9. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
10. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life: Anne Lamott