This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Feb. 15 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. Vigil: George Saunders
2. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
3. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy
4. Operation Bounce House: Matt Dinniman
5. Heart the Lover: Lily King
6. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
8. Flesh: David Szalay
9. My Friends: Fredrik Backman
10. This Is Not About Us: Fiction: Allegra Goodman
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
2. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
3. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster: Jacob Soboroff
4. The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg — and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema: Paul Fischer
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
6. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
7. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
9. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
10. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
2. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
3. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
5. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In): Emily Brontë
6. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
7. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
8. Stone Yard Devotional: Charlotte Wood
9. The Lion Women of Tehran: Marjan Kamali
10. The Long Game: Rachel Reid
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
2. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
3. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
5. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
8. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness: Morgan Housel
9. Fight Oligarchy: Senator Bernie Sanders
10. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion