The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Aug. 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. James: Percival Everett
2. All Fours: Miranda July
3. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
4. Liars: Sarah Manguso
5. Long Island Compromise: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
6. The Women: Kristin Hannah
7. The Paris Novel: Ruth Reichl
8. The Book of Elsewhere: Keanu Reeves, China Miéville
9. All the Colors of the Dark: Chris Whitaker
10. Sandwich: Catherine Newman
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World: Anne Applebaum
3. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir: Griffin Dunne
4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War: Erik Larson
6. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
7. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way: Fred C. Trump III
8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s: Doris Kearns Goodwin
9. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography: RoseMarie Terenzio, Liz McNeil
10. When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
3. Fire & Blood: George R.R. Martin
4. Animal Farm: George Orwell
5. Dune: Frank Herbert
6. The Shining: Stephen King
7. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman
8. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
9. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
10. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
3. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante
4. Just for the Summer: Abby Jimenez
5. This Summer Will Be Different: Carley Fortune
6. Trust: Hernan Diaz
7. The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
8. A Court of Mist and Fury: Sarah J. Maas
9. The Idiot: Elif Batuman
10. Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro
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