The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, January 18, 2026. 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, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
2. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
3. Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237
4. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
5. The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave, Scribner, $29, 9781668002964
6. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
7. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
8. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
9. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
10. Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715
11. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
12. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
13. The School of Night
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593832806
14. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
15. Katabasis
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $32, 9780063446243
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
2. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366
3. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
4. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35, 9780593296967
5. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965
6. The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential
Zack Kass, Wiley, $28, 9781394381081
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
8. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
9. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
10. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
11. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
12. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525556572
13. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
14. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668066898
15. The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog
Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837991013
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
2. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
3. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
4. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
5. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
6. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
7. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
8. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
9. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778
10. Train Dreams
Denis Johnson, Picador, $17, 9781250007650
11. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925
12. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
13. People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806758
14. Tough Guy
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534590
15. Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte, Penguin, $9, 9780141439556
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
2. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant, Penguin, $20, 9780593653661
3. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
4. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372
5. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
6. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
7. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
8. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $22, 9780399591617
9. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
10. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199
11. The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079
12. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
13. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
14. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta (Illus.), Nightboat Books, $16.95, 9781643620060
15. Gift From the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Pantheon, $15, 9780679732419
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
3. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
4. And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488
5. The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Bantam, $7.95, 9780553213508
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
8. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086
9. Storm Front
Jim Butcher, Ace, $10.99, 9780451457813
10. Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345337665
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
3. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
4. Your Truck
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536248227
5. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
6. Los Angeles is . . .: A Board Book
Elisa Parhad, Alexander Vidal (Illus.), Abrams Appleseed, $12.99, 9781944903237
7. Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637
8. KPop Demon Hunters: The Official Poster Book
Random House Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9798217233960
9. Peekaboo: Zoo
Camilla Reid, Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illus.), Candlewick Press, $9.99, 9781536241433
10. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $14.99, 9798217111916
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891
3. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
4. Winnie-the-Pooh: 100th Anniversary Edition
A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illus.), Aladdin, $10.99, 9781665984126
5. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
6. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
7. Orris and Timble: The Beginning
Kate DiCamillo, Carmen Mok (Illus.), Candlewick, $16.99, 9781536222791
8. Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500
9. Fake Skating
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781665921268
10. Cabin Head and Tree Head
Scott Campbell, Tundra Books, $9.99, 9781774885079
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
3. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
4. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
5. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion 
6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
7. Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic 
8. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
9. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix 
10. Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic