The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List for the week ended Aug. 16 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Whistler: Ann Patchett
2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce): Caro Claire Burke
3. The Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout
4. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
5. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett
6. John of John: Douglas Stuart
7. Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy #3): Colson Whitehead
8. Country People: Daniel Mason
9. Under the Falls: A Novel: Richard Russo
10. Land: Maggie O’Farrell
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
2. The Land and Its People: Essays: David Sedaris
3. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: Patrick Radden Keefe
4. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
5. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham
6. How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University: Theo Baker
7. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
9. The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
10. The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay: Essays: Eliot Glazer
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
2. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
3. Circe: Madeline Miller
4. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2): Matt Dinniman
5. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
6. The Odyssey: Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.)
7. East of Eden: John Steinbeck
8. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
9. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
10. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce): Sophie Elmhirst
2. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late: Cory Doctorow
3. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain
4. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion
5. Just Kids: Patti Smith
6. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
8. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
9. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton
10. Communion: The Female Search for Love: bell hooks