{"id":25603,"date":"2025-08-27T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25603\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T02:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:43:06","slug":"this-weeks-bestsellers-at-southern-californias-independent-bookstores-daily-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25603\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s bestsellers at Southern California\u2019s independent bookstores \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended Aug. 24 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and\u00a0IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HARDCOVER FICTION<\/p>\n

1. My Friends:<\/strong>\u00a0Fredrik Backman<\/p>\n

2. The Wedding People:\u00a0<\/strong>Alison Espach<\/p>\n

3. Atmosphere:\u00a0<\/strong>Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/p>\n

4. James:\u00a0<\/strong>Percival Everett<\/p>\n

5. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil:\u00a0<\/strong>V. E. Schwab<\/p>\n

6. The Emperor of Gladness:\u00a0<\/strong>Ocean Vuong<\/p>\n

7. Culpability:\u00a0<\/strong>Bruce Holsinger<\/p>\n

8. Wild Dark Shore:\u00a0<\/strong>Charlotte McConaghy<\/p>\n

9. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King\u2019s The Stand:\u00a0<\/strong>Christopher Golden (Ed.), Brian Keene (Ed.)<\/p>\n

10. An Inside Job:\u00a0<\/strong>Daniel Silva<\/p>\n

HARDCOVER NONFICTION<\/p>\n

1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can\u2019t Stop Talking About:\u00a0<\/strong>Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins<\/p>\n

2. Raising Hare: A Memoir:\u00a0<\/strong>Chloe Dalton<\/p>\n

3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being:\u00a0<\/strong>Rick Rubin<\/p>\n

4. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run:\u00a0<\/strong>Peter Ames Carlin<\/p>\n

5. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir:\u00a0<\/strong>Keith McNally<\/p>\n

6. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection:\u00a0<\/strong>John Green<\/p>\n

7. Baldwin: A Love Story:\u00a0<\/strong>Nicholas Boggs<\/p>\n

8. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI:\u00a0<\/strong>Karen Hao<\/p>\n

9. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation:\u00a0<\/strong>Scott Anderson<\/p>\n

10. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck:\u00a0<\/strong>Sophie Elmhirst<\/p>\n

MASS MARKET<\/p>\n

1. 1984:\u00a0<\/strong>George Orwell<\/p>\n

2. Animal Farm:\u00a0<\/strong>George Orwell<\/p>\n

3. A Raisin in the Sun:\u00a0<\/strong>Lorraine Hansberry<\/p>\n

4. Jurassic Park:\u00a0<\/strong>Michael Crichton<\/p>\n

5. The Way of Kings:\u00a0<\/strong>Brandon Sanderson<\/p>\n

6. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One:\u00a0<\/strong>J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n

7. Mistborn: The Final Empire:\u00a0<\/strong>Brandon Sanderson<\/p>\n

8. The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy:\u00a0<\/strong>Douglas Adams<\/p>\n

9. Children of Dune:\u00a0<\/strong>Frank Herbert<\/p>\n

10. The Diary of a Young Girl:\u00a0<\/strong>Anne Frank<\/p>\n

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION<\/p>\n

1. Project Hail Mary:\u00a0<\/strong>Andy Weir<\/p>\n

2. Remarkably Bright Creatures:\u00a0<\/strong>Shelby Van Pelt<\/p>\n

3. All Fours:\u00a0<\/strong>Miranda July<\/p>\n

4. The Song of Achilles:\u00a0<\/strong>Madeline Miller<\/p>\n

5. Martyr!:\u00a0<\/strong>Kaveh Akbar<\/p>\n

6. Tell Me Everything:\u00a0<\/strong>Elizabeth Strout<\/p>\n

7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology:<\/strong>\u00a0Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.)<\/p>\n

8. I Who Have Never Known Men:\u00a0<\/strong>Jacqueline Harpman<\/p>\n

9. Piranesi:\u00a0<\/strong>Susanna Clarke<\/p>\n

10. The Ministry of Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Kaliane Bradley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended Aug. 24 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17,9852],"class_list":{"0":"post-25603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}