Elizabeth Casillas

This week’s bestselling titles include The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave, James by Percival Everett, and Game Changer by Rachel Reid.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, Breath by James Nestor, and Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid.

Here are works on and of the West, including Crux, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, and Vigil, that we’re delighted to see published this month.

Each year, the California Book Club spotlights a dozen standout titles and invites their authors to join the conversation. Here are some works that drew big crowds this year.

This week’s bestselling titles include Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, Good Things by Samin Nosrat, and Flesh by David Szalay.

This week’s bestselling titles include I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell, and The Black Wolf by Louise Penny.

This week’s bestselling titles include One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, How to Know a Person by David Brooks, and The Best American Essays 2025, edited by Jia Tolentino and Kim Dana Kupperman.

Here are works by authors on and of the West, including Only Way Out, How to Cook a Coyote, and Television, that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Uncool by Cameron Crowe, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, and The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, How About Now by Kate Baer, and Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.

This week’s bestselling titles include Twice by Mitch Albom, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, and The Black Wolf by Louise Penny.

Here are works by authors on and of the West, including Blind Persistence, Devouring Time, and Self-Portraits Ex Machina, that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, How to Know a Person by David Brooks, and Giving Up Is Unforgivable by Joyce Vance.

This week’s bestselling titles include Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert, and Mate by Ali Hazelwood.

This week’s bestselling titles include Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, and Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, 107 Days by Kamala Harris, and Poems and Prayers by Matthew McConaughey.

Here are works by authors on and of the West—including Archive of Desire, The High Heaven, and Crawl—that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Culpability by Bruce Holsinger, and Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.

Rebecca Solnit and Paul Yamazaki will join John Freeman to discuss his new book, California Rewritten, at the Verdi Club in San Francisco.

Celebrate print and catch exclusive deals on Alta subscriptions and merch as we kick off Litquake’s 2025 festival.

Celebrate California Rewritten with John Freeman, Elaine Castillo, and Tommy Orange.

This week’s bestselling titles include On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen, The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami, and Clown Town by Mick Herron.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger, Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, and The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care by Maybell Eequay.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar, Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch, and Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum.

Here are works by authors on and of the West—including Wrecking Ball, What a Time to Be Alive, and The Wilderness—that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Tonight in Jungleland by Peter Ames Carlin, and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

This week’s bestselling titles include Coming Up Short by Robert B. Reich, James by Percival Everett, and The Wedding People by Alison Espach.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, An Inside Job by Daniel Silva, and Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton.

This week’s bestselling titles include All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

This week’s bestselling titles include Culpability by Bruce Holsinger, A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst, and The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.

This month, we’ve got our eyes on Feasts on the Farm, Regaining Unconsciousness, Automatic Noodle, and 12 other titles by writers on the West.

This week’s bestselling titles include All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, An Inside Job by Daniel Silva, and The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan.