This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Feb. 8 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
2. Vigil: George Saunders
3. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy
4. Heart the Lover: Lily King
5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
6. Flesh: David Szalay
7. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan
8. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
9. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
10. Lost Lambs: Madeline Cash
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
2. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
4. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
5. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
6. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton
7. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
8. Football: Chuck Klosterman
9. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster: Jacob Soboroff
10. Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon: Toni Morrison
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
2. Game Changer: Rachel Reid
3. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): Emily Brontë, Ruben Toledo (Illus.)
4. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
5. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
6. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
7. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
8. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley
9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
10. Red Rising: Pierce Brown
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
2. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
5. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things: Adam Grant
8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me: Patrick Bringley
9. Fight Oligarchy: Senator Bernie Sanders
10. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor