The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, February 15, 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. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622
2. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430
3. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739
4. Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32, 9780593820308
5. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176
6. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155
8. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799
9. My Friends
Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781982112820
10. This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840
11. What We Can Know
Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30, 9780593804728
12. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
13. Alchemised
SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35, 9780593972700
14. Clutch
Emily Nemens, Tin House, $28, 9781963108668
15. Murder Bimbo
Rebecca Novack, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668214619
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318
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. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965
4. The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
Paul Fischer, Celadon Books, $32, 9781250878724
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
6. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005
7. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
9. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280
10. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook
Alison Roman, Clarkson Potter, $37.99, 9781984826411
11. The Uncool: A Memoir
Cameron Crowe, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781668059432
12. Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
Keza MacDonald, Knopf, $32, 9780593802687
13. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Charlie Mackesy, Penguin Life, $27, 9780593994825
14. Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120
15. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637
2. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512
3. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254
5. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140
6. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876
7. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
8. Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $19, 9798217047369
9. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594
10. The Long Game
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534644
11. Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19, 9780593730102
12. The Ghosts of Rome
Joseph O'Connor, Europa Editions, $18.95, 9798889661696
13. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778
14. Game Changer
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534620
15. Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $19, 9780593798621
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831
2. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470
3. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24, 9780143129257
4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114
5. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780735213623
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $19, 9781668007983
8. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689
9. Fight Oligarchy
Senator Bernie Sanders, Crown, $14.99, 9798217089161
10. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
11. P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Duke University Press, $27.95, 9781478033332
12. Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen, Dutton, $20, 9780593476116
13. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry, Norton, $19.99, 9780393322231
14. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495
15. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks, Washington Square Press, $19, 9780743456081
 
MASS MARKET 
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
3. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
4. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400
6. Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare, Washington Square Press, $6.99, 9780743482752
7. Macbeth
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477109
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803
9. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608
10. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780593500484
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775
2. Little Blue Truck's Valentine
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780358272441
3. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977
4. Rumpelstiltskin
Mac Barnett, Carson Ellis (Illus.), Orchard Books, $19.99, 9781338673852
5. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926
6. Smooches!
Sandra Boynton, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780316574686
7. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
8. The Sweater: A Story of Community
Larissa Theule, Teagan White (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593528945
9. Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson, Dan Santat (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593616673
10. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit's Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110
2. 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
3. The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907
4. The Lions' Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817
5. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
6. Queen of Faces: Deluxe Edition
Petra Lord, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $22.99, 9781250362971
7. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
8. Fairy Door Diaries: Eliza and the Flower Fairies
Megan McDonald, Lenny Wen (Illus.), Candlewick, $6.99, 9781536243949
9. Pocket Bear
Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250904362
10. An Unofficial Guided Journal for Fans of KPop Demon Hunters: Besties Forever!
Editors of Media Lab Books, Media Lab Books, $12.99, 9781964487663
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet 
2. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic 
3. Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley 
4. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
5. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 
6. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
7. Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic 
8. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press 
9. The First Cat in Space
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley 
10. Who Would Win?
Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster (Illus.), Scholastic