This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 4 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. Heart the Lover: Lily King
2. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
3. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
4. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
5. Flesh: David Szalay
6. My Friends: Fredrik Backman
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
8. Katabasis: R. F. Kuang
9. Culpability: Bruce Holsinger
10. The Secret of Secrets: Dan Brown
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
2. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
3. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
4. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
5. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green
6. The Look: Michelle Obama
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
8. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
9. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: Samin Nosrat
10. Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City: Mark Ronson
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
2. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
3. The Housemaid: Freida McFadden
4. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
6. Orbital: Samantha Harvey
7. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
8. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
9. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
10. The Lion Women of Tehran: Marjan Kamali
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Fight Oligarchy: Senator Bernie Sanders
2. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
3. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
4. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor
5. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
6. The Best American Essays 2025: Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.)
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
8. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
10. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder