This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 25 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. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy
3. Heart the Lover: Lily King
4. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
6. Lost Lambs: Madeline Cash
7. James: Percival Everett
8. The First Time I Saw Him: Laura Dave
9. Crucible: John Sayles
10. Twelve Months: Jim Butcher
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster: Jacob Soboroff
2. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
4. Football: Chuck Klosterman
5. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
6. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
7. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
8. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds: John Fugelsang
9. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
10. The Uncool: A Memoir: Cameron Crowe
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
2. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
3. The Long Game: Rachel Reid
4. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
5. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
6. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
7. Game Changer: Rachel Reid
8. Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
9. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
10. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
4. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor
5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion
6. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life: George Saunders
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
8. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
9. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
10. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life: William Finnegan