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    This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
    • February 11, 2026

    The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Feb. 8 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. Vigil: George Saunders

    3. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy

    4. Heart the Lover: Lily King

    5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai

    6. Flesh: David Szalay

    7. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan

    8. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy

    9. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan

    10. Lost Lambs: Madeline Cash

    HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

    2. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin

    3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden

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

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

    6. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton

    7. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith

    8. Football: Chuck Klosterman

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

    10. Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon: Toni Morrison

    TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

    1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid

    2. Game Changer: Rachel Reid

    3. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): Emily Brontë, Ruben Toledo (Illus.)

    4. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi

    5. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

    6. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

    7. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

    8. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley

    9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

    10. Red Rising: Pierce Brown

    TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

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

    2. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks

    3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

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

    5. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion

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

    7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things: Adam Grant

    8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me: Patrick Bringley

    9. Fight Oligarchy: Senator Bernie Sanders

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

    ​ Orange County Register 

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