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

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Feb. 1 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. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans

2. Vigil: George Saunders

3. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy

4. Heart the Lover: Lily King

5. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy

6. My Friends: Fredrik Backman

7. Crucible: John Sayles

8. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai

9. The First Time I Saw Him: Laura Dave

10. Lost Lambs: Madeline Cash

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

2. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst

3. Football: Chuck Klosterman

4. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden

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

6. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds

7. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin

8. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith

9. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman

10. Life Is Lifey: The A to Z’s of Navigating Life’s Messy Middle: Sarah Shahi

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi

2. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

3. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid

4. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

5. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore

6. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman

7. The Long Game: Rachel Reid

8. Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte

9. Game Changer: Rachel Reid

10. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder

2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion

4. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell

5. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks

6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel

7. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts: Oliver Burkeman

8. American Carnage: How Trump, Musk and Doge Butchered the Us Government: Sasha Abramsky

9. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy

10. The F—ots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.)