This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 11 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. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
2. Heart the Lover: Lily King
3. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
4. James: Percival Everett
5. The First Time I Saw Him: Laura Dave
6. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
7. Flesh: David Szalay
8. Buckeye: Patrick Ryan
9. Audition: Katie Kitamura
10. Mona’s Eyes: Thomas Schlesser
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
2. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
4. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster: Jacob Soboroff
5. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
6. Hush: How to Radiate Power and Confidence Without Saying a Word: Linda Clemons
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
8. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: Samin Nosrat
9. Mother Mary Comes to Me: Arundhati Roy
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. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
2. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
3. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
4. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
5. Game Changer: Rachel Reid
6. The Long Game: Rachel Reid
7. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
8. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
9. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon
10. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
2. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
3. Fight Oligarchy: Senator Bernie Sanders
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
5. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: David Brooks
6. Reimagining Government: Achieving the Promise of AI: Faisal Hoque, Erik Nelson, Thomas H. Davenport
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants: Robin Wall Kimmerer
8. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
9. Just Kids: Patti Smith
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.