This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Feb. 22 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. Heart the Lover: Lily King
4. Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter: Heather Fawcett
5. Operation Bounce House: Matt Dinniman
6. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy
7. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
8. The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition): Kate Quinn
9. So Old, So Young: Grant Ginder
10. This Book Made Me Think of You: Libby Page
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
2. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
3. The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg — and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema: Paul Fischer
4. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
5. American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology: Jon Meacham
6. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice: Virginia Roberts Giuffre
7. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
8. A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides: Gisèle Pelicot
9. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
10. The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
2. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
3. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
4. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In): Emily Brontë
5. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
6. Stone Yard Devotional: A Novel: Charlotte Wood
7. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
8. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
9. The Long Game: Rachel Reid
10. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
2. The Lion Beneath the Fade: Sebastian Bastian
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
5. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
6. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
7. The Myth of Sisyphus: Albert Camus
8. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: Don Miguel Ruiz
9. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel