Today January 28, 2026, 02:12 AM

This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

Published January 28, 2026, 02:12 AM

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 25 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.

1. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans

2. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy

3. Heart the Lover: Lily King

4. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan

5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai

6. Lost Lambs: Madeline Cash

7. James: Percival Everett

8. The First Time I Saw Him: Laura Dave

9. Crucible: John Sayles

10. Twelve Months: Jim Butcher

1. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster: Jacob Soboroff

2. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst

3. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad

4. Football: Chuck Klosterman

5. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith

6. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin

7. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

8. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds: John Fugelsang

9. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden

10. The Uncool: A Memoir: Cameron Crowe

1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid

2. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

3. The Long Game: Rachel Reid

4. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi

5. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

6. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman

7. Game Changer: Rachel Reid

8. Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte

9. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt

10. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore

1. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks

2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder

3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann

4. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor

5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion

6. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life: George Saunders

7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell

8. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy

9. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel

10. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life: William Finnegan