The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended July 19 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. Whistler: Ann Patchett
2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce): Caro Claire Burke
3. Land: Maggie O’Farrell
4. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812
5. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
6. Country People: Daniel Mason
7. It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories: Sigrid Nunez
8. The Midnight Train: Matt Haig
9. The Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout
10. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario: Matt Dinniman
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. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
4. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham
5. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: Patrick Radden Keefe
6. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
7. The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World: Brian Tyler Cohen
8. You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters: Rachel Aviv
9. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
10. The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Odyssey: Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.)
2. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
3. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
5. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
7. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
9. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: Stephen Graham Jones
10. The Beginning of Everything: Charles Salzberg
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce): Sophie Elmhirst
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
3. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
5. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton
6. Just Kids: Patti Smith
7. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were): Eve Babitz
8. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain
9. It’s Only Drowning: A Memoir: David Litt
10. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks