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    This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
    • August 6, 2025

    The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Aug. 3 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. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid

    2. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong

    3. Culpability: Bruce Holsinger

    4. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: V. E. Schwab

    5. James: Percival Everett

    6. An Inside Job: Daniel Silva

    7. Not Quite Dead Yet: Holly Jackson

    8. The Wedding People: Alison Espach

    9. The Bewitching: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    10. Vera, or Faith: Gary Shteyngart

    HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

    2. Abundance: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

    3. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green

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

    5. Gwyneth: The Biography: Amy Odell

    6. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir: Keith McNally

    7. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton

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

    9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin

    10. The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay

    MASS MARKET

    1. 1984: George Orwell

    2. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

    3. Animal Farm: George Orwell

    4. Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky

    5. The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger

    6. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson

    7. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie

    8. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

    9. Dune: Frank Herbert

    10. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut

    TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

    1. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

    2. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

    3. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

    4. All Fours: Miranda July

    5. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt

    6. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho

    7. One Golden Summer: Carley Fortune

    8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride

    9. All the Colors of the Dark: Chris Whitaker

    10. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon

     

    ​ Orange County Register 

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