The SoCal Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the 
sales week ended Sunday, July 5, 2020. 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 Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
2. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
3. Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, Putnam, $26, 9780735219090
4. Sex and Vanity
Kevin Kwan, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385546270
5. Deacon King Kong
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735216723
6. Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26, 9780525541905
7. American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99, 9781250209764
8. The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $28, 9780399590597
9. Fair Warning
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $29, 9780316539425
10. A Burning
Megha Majumdar, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525658696
11. The Empire of Gold
S.A. Chakraborty, Harper Voyager, $28.99, 9780062678164
12. Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin Press, $27, 9781984879356
13. The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062963673
14. If It Bleeds
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781982137977
15. Shakespeare for Squirrels
Christopher Moore, Morrow, $28.99, 9780062434029
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
2. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $26, 9780812993547
3. Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad, Sourcebooks, $25.99, 9781728209807
4. The Room Where It Happened
John Bolton, S&S, $32.50, 9781982148034
5. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
6. The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson, Crown, $32, 9780385348713
7. I'm Still Here
Austin Channing Brown, Convergent Books, $25, 9781524760854
8. Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall, Viking, $26, 9780525560548
9. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong, One World, $27, 9781984820365
10. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
11. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504
12. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude, Crown, $27, 9780525575320
13. Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake, Random House, $28, 9780525510314
14. The Black Book
Middleton A. Harris (Ed.), Random House, $35, 9781400068487
15. How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell, Melville House, $26.99, 9781612197494
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Beloved
Toni Morrison, Vintage, $16, 9781400033416
2. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166
3. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
4. The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95, 9780345804341
5. Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17, 9780802156983
6. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17, 9781984822185
7. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
8. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16, 9781101971062
9. Trust Exercise
Susan Choi, Holt, $15.99, 9781250231260
10. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston, HarperCollins, $15.99, 9780060838676
11. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow, Redhook, $16.99, 9780316421973
12. The Other Americans
Laila Lalami, Vintage, $16, 9780525436034
13. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
14. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $16, 9780307455925
15. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
2. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99, 9781620971932
3. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
4. Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, $19.99, 9781568585987
5. The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Vintage, $13.95, 9780679744726
6. The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95, 9780679763888
7. The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631494536
8. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Basic Books, $18.99, 9780465060689
9. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, One World, $17, 9780593133934
10. Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, One World, $18, 9780399588198
11. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
12. Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis, Seven Stories Press, $15.95, 9781583225813
13. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807057834
14. Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe, Anchor, $16.95, 9780307279286
15. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Brittney Cooper, Picador, $18, 9781250112880
 
MASS MARKET
1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345350688
3. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345409874
4. The Princess Bride
William Goldman, Mariner, $9.99, 9780156035217
5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345514400
7. The Poet
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538718667
8. Run Away
Harlan Coben, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781538748428
9. Macbeth
William Shakespeare, S&S, $6.99, 9780743477109
10. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99, 9780399246531
2. The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats, Viking Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780670012701
3. The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illus.), Versify, $17.99, 9781328780966
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
5. Dream Big, Little One
Vashti Harrison, LB Kids, $8.99, 9780316475099
6. Sulwe
Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison (Illus.), Simon & Schuster (BYR), $17.99, 9781534425361
7. Antiracist Baby Board Book
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110416
8. All Are Welcome
Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780525579649
9. Woke Baby
Mahogany L. Browne, Theodore Taylor, III (Illus.), Roaring Brook Press, $7.99, 9781250308986
10. Hair Love
Matthew A. Cherry, Vashti Harrison (Illus.), Kokila, $17.99, 9780525553366
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316453691
2. This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand (Illus.), Frances Lincoln Children's Books, $14.99, 9780711245211
3. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Harper, $12.99, 9780062691194
4. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
5. El Deafo
Cece Bell, Amulet, $12.99, 9781419712173
6. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908
7. Harbor Me
Jacqueline Woodson, Puffin Books, $8.99, 9780525515142
8. A Song Below Water
Bethany C. Morrow, Tor Teen, $17.99, 9781250315328
9. The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon, Yearling, $7.99, 9781524715984
10. A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Tahereh Mafi, Harper, $10.99, 9780062866578
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES
1. Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
2. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
3. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
4. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Abrams 
6. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
7. Who Was/Is...? (paperback)
Ellen Morgan, et al., Penguin Workshop
8. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin
9. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
10. The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic