The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Aug. 24 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. My Friends: Fredrik Backman
2. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
3. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. James: Percival Everett
5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: V. E. Schwab
6. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong
7. Culpability: Bruce Holsinger
8. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
9. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand: Christopher Golden (Ed.), Brian Keene (Ed.)
10. An Inside Job: Daniel Silva
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
2. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton
3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
4. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run: Peter Ames Carlin
5. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir: Keith McNally
6. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green
7. Baldwin: A Love Story: Nicholas Boggs
8. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI: Karen Hao
9. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation: Scott Anderson
10. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. Animal Farm: George Orwell
3. A Raisin in the Sun: Lorraine Hansberry
4. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
5. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
6. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One: J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
9. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert
10. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
3. All Fours: Miranda July
4. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
5. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
6. Tell Me Everything: Elizabeth Strout
7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology: Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.)
8. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
9. Piranesi: Susanna Clarke
10. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley