Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Whistler:Ann Patchett, published by Harper.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,June 28, 2026. This list 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
- Whistler
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637 - Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430 - The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812 - Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Lisa See, Scribner, $29.00, 9781982117054 - Land
Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648 - The Midnight Train
Matt Haig, Viking, $30.00, 9780593833377 - Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $30.00, 9780593820261 - The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746 - Villa Coco
Andrew Sean Greer, Doubleday, $30.00, 9780385551977 - Contrapposto
Dave Eggers, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593803509 - John of John
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194 - Red Sheet
James Ellroy, Knopf, $35.00, 9780525656814 - Transcription
Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25.00, 9780374618599 - Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It
Brooke Averick, Crown, $28.00, 9798217088263
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246 - Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318 - The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839 - London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533 - Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593652886 - Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
Mac Barnett, Little, Brown and Company, $20.00, 9780316601122 - The Rolling Stones: The Biography
Bob Spitz, Penguin Press, $38.00, 9780593489093 - How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
Theo Baker, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593832837 - Liar’s Kingdom: How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America
Andrew Weissmann, Little, Brown and Company, $29.00, 9780316601306 - All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
Ben Rhodes, Random House, $35.00, 9780593595121 - The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government
Barbara McQuade, Seven Stories Press, $35.00, 9781644215555 - Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Simon Six, $26.00, 9781668249970 - Silver Linings: Finding Wealth, Wisdom, and Redemption on the Hardest Road of All
Silver Kung, Worth, $26.00, 9781637635063 - Anxietyland
Gemma Correll, Gallery Books, $33.00, 978166800415
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593158739 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254 - Taiwan Travelogue
Shuang-zi Yang, Graywolf Press, $18.00, 9781644453155 - The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461 - Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519 - East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $23.00, 9780142004234 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593685778 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Vintage, $20.00, 9798217007943 - Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Melville House, $19.99, 9781685892111 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19.00, 9780593466490 - Katabasis
R.F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $22.00, 9780063021488 - So Far Gone
Jess Walter, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062868152
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)
Eve Babitz, New York Review Books, $18.95, 9781681379593 - Communion: The Female Search for Love
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060938291 - The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial IntelligenceŅBefore It’s Too Late
Cory Doctorow, MCD, $18.00, 9780374621568 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456 - It’s Only Drowning: A Memoir
David Litt, Gallery Books, $19.00, 9781668035368 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18.00, 9781400078431 - Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Karen Hao, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593657522 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21.00, 9780307742490 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004 - Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
Jeremy Atherton Lin, Back Bay Books, $19.99, 9780316546072 - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20.00, 9780143130147 - The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Evan Osnos, Scribner, $21.00, 9781668204511 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $22.00, 9780307279286 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114 - City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis)
Mike Davis, Verso, $21.95, 9781786635891
MASS MARKET
- Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12.00, 9780399501487 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716 - Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345409874 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $8.99, 9781481431217 - Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $11.99, 9780547366203 - Good Night California (Good Night Our World)
Adam Gamble, Harvey Stevenson (Illus.), Good Night Books, $9.95, 9781602190214 - I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $8.99, 9780375827785 - Kindergarten Gets Ready
Naomi Danis, Pete Oswald (Illus.), Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581134 - The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever
Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665974523 - The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - Beautiful Oops!
Barney Salzberg, Workman, $16.99, 9780761157281
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The New Girl: First Crush: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338762488 - Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546151210 - The Mystery of the Stolen World Cup Trophy
Angela Cervantes, Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks, $9.99, 9781250419279 - Wombat Waiting
Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178 - Howl’s Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition
Diana Wynne Jones, Greenwillow Books, $24.99, 9780063416468 - Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
Rex Ogle, Dave Valeza (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781338575071 - Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500 - Odder: The Novel
Katherine Applegate, Charles Santoso (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250423429 - The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: Deluxe Edition
Gareth Hinds, Gareth Hinds (Illus.), Candlewick, $29.99, 9781536254525 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- InvestiGators: Weather or Not
John Patrick Green, First Second, $12.99, 9781250357915 - Dawn on the Coast: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club #19)
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546135548 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Deluxe Collector’s Edition (The Chronicles of Narnia #2)
C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illus.), HarperCollins, $24.99, 9780063516250 - Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, $27.99, 9781546171461 - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $12.99, 9780545425117 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams, $15.99, 9781419782695 - Hooky Volume 2: A Graphic Novel
Miriam Bonastre Tur, Clarion Books, $15.99, 9780358693093 - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ABC Touch & Trace (Chicka Chicka Book, A)
Jr. Martin, Bill, John Archambault, Daniel Roode (Illus.), Little Simon, $9.99, 9798347107551 - Dog Man: Big Jim Believes
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $15.99, 9781546176183 - Karen’s Surprise: A Graphic Novel (Baby-sitters Little Sister #12)
Ann M. Martin, Shauna J. Grant (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781339005133
