Elizabeth Casillas
Elizabeth Casillas is an assistant editor at Alta Journal. A graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, she has previously written for the Poly Post and Enspire Magazine.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (December 4, 2025)
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.

9 New Books for December
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (November 20, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include The Uncool by Cameron Crowe, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, and The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (November 13, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, How About Now by Kate Baer, and Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (November 6, 2025)
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.

12 New Books for November
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (October 30, 2025)
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (October 16, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert, and Mate by Ali Hazelwood.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (October 9, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, and Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (October 2, 2025)
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.

15 New Books for October
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (September 25, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Culpability by Bruce Holsinger, and Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.

Celebrate the California Book Club’s Fifth Anniversary at Litquake
Rebecca Solnit and Paul Yamazaki will join John Freeman to discuss his new book, California Rewritten, at the Verdi Club in San Francisco.

Meet Alta Journal at Litquake’s Small Press Book Fair
Celebrate print and catch exclusive deals on Alta subscriptions and merch as we kick off Litquake’s 2025 festival.

Alta Journal and John Freeman at Kepler’s
Celebrate California Rewritten with John Freeman, Elaine Castillo, and Tommy Orange.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (September 18, 2025)
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (September 11, 2025)
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (September 4, 2025)
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.

14 New Books for September
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (August 28, 2025)
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (August 21, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Coming Up Short by Robert B. Reich, James by Percival Everett, and The Wedding People by Alison Espach.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (August 14, 2025)
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.

Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (August 7, 2025)
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (July 31, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Culpability by Bruce Holsinger, A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst, and The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.

15 New Books for August
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (July 24, 2025)
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.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (July 17, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Sociopath by Patric Gagne, The Creative Act by Rick Rubin, and The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (July 10, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism by Stewart “Brittlestar” Reynolds, Mark Twain by Ron Chernow, and The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (July 3, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, and The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong.

New Releases for July
Here are 12 books by authors on and of the West, including The Silver State, Little Red Barns, and Salt Bones, that we’re excited to see publish this month.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (June 26, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, and The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne.

Alta Journal ’s California Bestsellers List (June 20, 2025)
This week’s bestselling titles include How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast, One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune, and Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch.