This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Aug. 18 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. Long Island Compromise: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3. All Fours: Miranda July
4. The Women: Kristin Hannah
5. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
6. Sandwich: Catherine Newman
7. Lady Macbeth: Ava Reid
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
9. The Bright Sword: Lev Grossman
10. All the Colors of the Dark: Chris Whitaker
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi
3. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything: Nate Silver
4. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir: Griffin Dunne
5. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
6. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir: Anna Marie Tendler
7. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
8. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: David Brooks
9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War: Erik Larson
10. Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy: Brian Tyler Cohen
MASS MARKET
1. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
4. A Game of Thrones: George R. R. Martin
5. The Shining: Stephen King
6. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
7. Dune: Frank Herbert
8. The Fall of Hyperion: Dan Simmons
9. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
10. Animal Farm: George Orwell
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
2. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
3. The Pairing: Casey McQuiston
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
5. Just for the Summer: Abby Jimenez
6. The Secret History: Donna Tartt
7. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
8. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
9. The Exchange: John Grisham
10. Not in Love: Ali Hazelwood