This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 18 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. Heart the Lover: Lily King
3. Lost Lambs: Madeline Cash
4. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
5. The First Time I Saw Him: Laura Dave
6. My Friends: Fredrik Backman
7. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan
8. Audition: Katie Kitamura
9. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
10. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
2. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
3. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
4. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
5. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster: Jacob Soboroff
6. The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential: Zack Kass
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
8. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
9. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
10. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
2. Game Changer: Rachel Reid
3. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
4. The Long Game: Rachel Reid
5. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
6. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
7. The Housemaid: Freida McFadden
8. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
10. Train Dreams: Denis Johnson
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
2. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things: Adam Grant
3. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
4. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself: Michael A. Singer
5. Fight Oligarchy: Senator Bernie Sanders
6. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
7. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me: Patrick Bringley
8. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe: Laura Lynne Jackson
9. Just Kids: Patti Smith
10. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles: Rosecrans Baldwin