Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

Published on Feb 9, 2026

 

Number One in Hardcover Fiction:The Correspondent:Virginia Evans,
published by Crown

Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,February 1, 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

  1. The Correspondent
    Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430

  2. Vigil
    George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622

  3. Half His Age
    Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739

  4. Heart the Lover
    Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176

  5. Wild Dark Shore
    Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951

  6. My Friends
    Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820

  7. Crucible
    John Sayles, Melville House, $32.99, 9781685892272

  8. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
    Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155

  9. The First Time I Saw Him
    Laura Dave, Scribner, $29, 9781668002964

  10. Lost Lambs
    Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237

  11. Escape!
    Stephen Fishbach, Dutton, $30, 9798217048151

  12. Atmosphere
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715

  13. Departure(s)
    Julian Barnes, Knopf, $27, 9780593804506

  14. This Is Where the Serpent Lives
    Daniyal Mueenuddin, Knopf, $29, 9780525655152

  15. Small Things Like These
    Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  1. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
    Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148

  2. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
    Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280

  3. Football
    Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648

  4. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
    Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318

  5. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
    Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366

  6. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
    Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005

  7. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967

  8. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
    Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124

  9. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
    Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411

  10. Life Is Lifey: The A to Z’s of Navigating Life’s Messy Middle
    Sarah Shahi, Regalo Press, $28.99, 9798895650288

  11. The Uncool: A Memoir
    Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432

  12. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
    Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886

  13. Surrender to Lead: The Counterintuitive Approach to Driving Extraordinary Results
    Jessica Kriegel, Joe Terry, Amplify Publishing, $29.99, 9798891384880

  14. The Epic IEP: A Powerful Playbook for Parents, Educators, and Advocates Navigating the Special Education Process
    Karen Mayer Cunningham, Mission Driven Press, $28, 9781637635124

  15. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
    Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45, 9781984857781

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

  1. Theo of Golden
    Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512

  2. Hamnet
    Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876

  3. Heated Rivalry
    Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637

  4. Project Hail Mary
    Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228

  5. The God of the Woods
    Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925

  6. Dungeon Crawler Carl
    Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254

  7. The Long Game
    Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644

  8. Wuthering Heights
    Emily Brontë, Penguin Classics, $9, 9780141439556

  9. Game Changer
    Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620

  10. I Who Have Never Known Men
    Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600

  11. Martyr!
    Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778

  12. The Lion Women of Tehran
    Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594

  13. People We Meet on Vacation
    Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758

  14. Remarkably Bright Creatures
    Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164

  15. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
    Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.), New Directions, $15.95, 9780811237253

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

  1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114

  2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560

  3. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386

  4. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
    Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983

  5. All About Love: New Visions
    bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470

  6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456

  7. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
    Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250397676

  8. American Carnage: How Trump, Musk and Doge Butchered the Us Government
    Sasha Abramsky, OR Books, $17.95, 9781682196762

  9. I’m Glad My Mom Died
    Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831

  10. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
    Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.), Nightboat Books, $16.95, 9781643620060

  11. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
    Jonathan Blitzer, Penguin, $21, 9781984880826

  12. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
    James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623

  13. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
    Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372

  14. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
    Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257

  15. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
    Adam Grant, Penguin, $20, 9780593653661

MASS MARKET

  1. 1984
    George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935

  2. The Way of Kings
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279

  3. Animal Farm
    George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342

  4. The Diary of a Young Girl
    Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129

  5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803

  6. Mistborn: The Final Empire
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541

  7. Lord of the Flies
    William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487

  8. Foundation
    Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $10, 9780553293357

  9. Hyperion
    Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686

  10. And Then There Were None
    Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

  1. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
    Golden Books (Illus.), Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977

  2. Smooches!
    Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686

  3. Pat the Bunny Board Book
    Dorothy Kunhardt, Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9798217120949

  4. Goodnight Moon
    Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617

  5. Good Night, Gorilla
    Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035

  6. Construction Site: You’re Just Right: A Valentine Lift-the-Flap Book
    Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797204307

  7. Pat the Bunny
    Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007

  8. Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery
    Colleen Paeff, Ji-Hyuk Kim (Illus.), Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665931847

  9. Grumpy Monkey Valentine Gross-Out
    Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593486924

  10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

  1. Impossible Creatures
    Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891

  2. Dragonborn
    Struan Murray, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9798217113217

  3. Wuthering Heights
    Emily Bronte, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $19, 9798217043408

  4. Lost Girls of Hollow Lake
    Rebekah Faubion, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780593900437

  5. Pax
    Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780062377029

  6. Cabin Head and Tree Head
    Scott Campbell, Tundra Books, $9.99, 9781774885079

  7. Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum
    Alasdair Beckett-King, Claire Powell (Illus.), Candlewick, $9.99, 9781536241679

  8. A Wolf Called Wander
    Rosanne Parry, Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943

  9. Pocket Bear
    Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362

  10. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: Color Edition
    Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338687859

CHILDREN'S SERIES

  1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams

  2. Wings of Fire
    Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic

  3. Dog Man
    Dav Pilkey, Graphix

  4. Magic Tree House
    Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers

  5. Spy School
    Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

  6. The Hunger Games
    Suzanne Collins, Scholastic

  7. I Survived
    Lauren Tarshis, Corey Egbert (Illus.), Scholastic

  8. Keeper of the Lost Cities
    Shannon Messenger, Valeria Tenaga Romanazzi (Illus.), Aladdin

  9. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
    Rick Riordan, Hyperion

  10. The Bad Guys
    Aaron Blabey, Scholastic