Number One in Hardcover Fiction James:,by Percival Everett,
published by St. Doubleday.
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 11, 2024. 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
- James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - The Seventh Veil of Salome
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $28.99, 9780593600269 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145 - Sandwich
Catherine Newman, Harper, $26.99, 9780063345164 - The Mercy of Gods
James S.A. Corey, Orbit, $30, 9780316525572 - The Book of Elsewhere
Keanu Reeves, China Miéville, Del Rey, $30, 9780593446591 - Liars
Sarah Manguso, Hogarth, $28, 9780593241257 - Catalina
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, One World, $28, 9780593449097 - The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman, Viking, $35, 9780735224049 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042 - All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss, Viking, $30, 9780593299920 - The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, and Illuminate the World
Jessica Zweig, St. Martin’s Essentials, $30, 9781250332967 - A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $32.50, 9781501183058 - Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, $27, 9780385549936 - An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow, Doubleday, $32.50, 9780385548755 - What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Bill Maher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668051351 - It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
Ramani Durvasula PhD, The Open Field, $29, 9780593492628 - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598 - Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - The Pairing
Casey McQuiston, St. Martin’s Griffin, $20, 9781250862747 - It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781668055960 - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Lisa See, Scribner, $18.99, 9781982117092 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - Beloved
Toni Morrison, Vintage, $17, 9781400033416 - Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781455563920 - Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll, S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, $18.99, 9781501153235 - My Murder
Katie Williams, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780593543771 - Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Penguin, $18, 9780593490716 - The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, $17, 9780743273565 - Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, FSG, $18, 9780374532079 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Consciousness Is All There Is: How Understanding and Experiencing Consciousness Will Transform Your Life
Dr. Tony Nader, Hay House LLC, $24.99, 9781401976507 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767 - Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Vintage, $17, 9780593315200
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365309 - A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716 - A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $8.95, 9780679755333 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477123 - The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279 - Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553277531
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- We Are Definitely Human
X. Fang, Tundra Books, $18.99, 9781774882023 - All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781481431217 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Maddie Frost, Workman, $5.99, 9781523505098 - Hey! Look at You!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $9.99, 9781665953160 - The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn
Shawn Harris, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593571880 - Sweet and Sour
Brian Yanish, Stacy Ebert (Illus.), Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $18.99, 9780374391447 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Grandest Game
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316481014 - Such Charming Liars
Karen M. McManus, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593485057 - The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780142407332 - The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - The Crossbow of Destiny
Brandon Hoang, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338789843 - The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207 - If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Judy Blume, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781665921312 - The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel
Christopher Lincoln, Dial Books, $13.99, 9780593617663
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Who Was/Is…?
Ellen Morgan, Stephen Marchesi (Illus.), Penguin Workshop - Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
