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 8, 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
- The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622 - Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155 - Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951 - What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728 - Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237 - The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave, Scribner, $29, 9781668002964 - Isles of the Emberdark
Brandon Sanderson, Tor Books, $30.99, 9781250415394 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323 - Clutch
Emily Nemens, Tin House, $28, 9781963108668 - The Elsewhere Express
Samantha Sotto Yambao, Del Rey, $32.99, 9780593725023
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280 - 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967 - Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - 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 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843 - Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124 - Football
Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593490648 - Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965 - Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
Toni Morrison, Knopf, $32, 9780593802748 - The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432 - The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837994731 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825 - Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637 - Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620 - Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Emily Brontë, Ruben Toledo (Illus.), Penguin Classics, $18, 9780143105435 - Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512 - Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778 - Red Rising
Pierce Brown, Del Rey, $18, 9780345539809 - The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99, 9781635577808 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593190272
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983 - Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant, Penguin, $20, 9780593653661 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161 - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623 - Restore: 90 Days of Intentional Living in Life, Faith, Business
Dana Gentry, Avail, $21.99, 9781969062049 - A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $23.99, 9780062397348 - Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617 - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders, Random House, $20, 9781984856036 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608 - A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716 - The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Signet, $7.95, 9780451529701 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $10.99, 9781668094853
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686 - Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852 - Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637 - For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You
Sonia Sotomayor, Jacqueline Alcántara (Illus.), Philomel Books, $18.99, 9780593206294 - Little Blue Truck’s Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441 - Your Truck
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536248227
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Lions’ Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817 - Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $19, 9798217043408 - The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324 - Cabin Head and Tree Head
Scott Campbell, Tundra Books, $9.99, 9781774885079 - Queen of Faces: Deluxe Edition
Petra Lord, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $22.99, 9781250362971 - Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - Pax
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780062377029 - The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361 - Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.), Aladdin, $10.99, 9781665984126
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Cassie Anderson (Illus.), Scholastic - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Valeria Tenaga Romanazzi (Illus.), Aladdin
