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.)