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

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Aug. 4 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. James: Percival Everett

2. All Fours: Miranda July

3. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore

4. Liars: Sarah Manguso

5. Long Island Compromise: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

6. The Women: Kristin Hannah

7. The Paris Novel: Ruth Reichl

8. The Book of Elsewhere: Keanu Reeves, China Miéville

9. All the Colors of the Dark: Chris Whitaker

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. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir: Griffin Dunne

4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt

5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War: Erik Larson

6. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear

7. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way: Fred C. Trump III

8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s: Doris Kearns Goodwin

9. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography: RoseMarie Terenzio, Liz McNeil

10. When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi

MASS MARKET

1. 1984: George Orwell

2. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut

3. Fire & Blood: George R.R. Martin

4. Animal Farm: George Orwell

5. Dune: Frank Herbert

6. The Shining: Stephen King

7. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman

8. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert

9. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger

10. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin

2. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas

3. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante

4. Just for the Summer: Abby Jimenez

5. This Summer Will Be Different: Carley Fortune

6. Trust: Hernan Diaz

7. The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath

8. A Court of Mist and Fury: Sarah J. Maas

9. The Idiot: Elif Batuman

10. Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro