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,August 23, 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)
- The Calamity Club — Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau, $35)
- Yesteryear — Caro Claire Burke (Knopf, $30)
- The Things We Never Say — Elizabeth Strout (Random House, $29)
- Cool Machine — Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, $30)
- The Correspondent — Virginia Evans (Crown, $28)
- Etna — Paul Yoon (Scribner, $28)
- The Shampoo Effect — Jenny Jackson (Pamela Dorman, $30)
- John of John — Douglas Stuart (Grove Press, $28)
- Ransom — Daniel Silva (Harper, $32)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Strangers — Belle Burden (Dial Press, $30)
- The Success Lie — Chantell Preston (Resolve Editions, $28)
- The Land and Its People — David Sedaris (Little, Brown & Co., $30)
- Regime Change — Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (Simon & Schuster, $34)
- London Falling — Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday, $35)
- This Is Me — Hayden Panettiere (Grand Central Publishing, $30)
- The Uncool — Cameron Crowe (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35)
- How to Rule the World — Theo Baker (Penguin Press, $32)
- The Little Frog’s Guide to Life — Maybell Eequay (Summersdale, $12)
- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin (Penguin Press, $32)
PAPERBACK FICTION
- Theo of Golden — Allen Levi (Atria Books, $20)
- Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman (Ace, $20)
- East of Eden — John Steinbeck (Penguin, $25)
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir (Ballantine Books, $22)
- The Odyssey — Homer; translated by Emily Wilson (Norton, $19)
- Circe — Madeline Miller (Back Bay, $20)
- The Midnight Library — Matt Haig (Penguin, $18)
- The Wedding People — Alison Espach (Holt Paperbacks, $19)
- The Road to Tender Hearts — Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books, $20)
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario — Matt Dinniman (Ace, $21)
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Golden State — Michael Hiltzik (Mariner Books, $22)
- A Marriage at Sea — Sophie Elmhirst (Riverhead Books, $20)
- Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton (Vintage, $21)
- Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, $19)
- All About Love — bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, $18)
- Just Kids — Patti Smith (Ecco, $19)
- Sit Write Here — April Dávila (St. Martin’s Essentials, $19)
- The Scenic Route — Sarah Aviram (Amplify Publishing, $19)
- The Secure Soul — Alison Cook (Thomas Nelson, $20)
- The Art Thief — Michael Finkel (Vintage, $18)
