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This week’s bestselling titles include Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick, and Make Believe by Mac Barnett.

Here are works by authors on and of the West—including There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, Villa Coco, and Daughters of the Sun and Moon—that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li, The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett, and Liar’s Kingdom by Andrew Weissmann.

This week’s bestselling titles include A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman, Take Me to Your Leader by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Angel Down by Daniel Kraus.

From film criticism and illustration to podcasts and culture reporting, Alta is recognized across categories at this year’s L.A. Press Club honors.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout, Make Believe by Mac Barnett, and The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett.

This week’s bestselling titles include Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About by Isabel Klee, Start with Yourself by Emma Grede, and Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea.

This week’s bestselling titles include Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten, Transcription by Ben Lerner, and Heart the Lover by Lily King.

Here are works on and of the West, including The Hill, Destiny Express, and Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin, that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include Famesick by Lena Dunham, Start with Yourself by Emma Grede, and Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen.

From singles mixers, to flash tattoos and even a “battle of the book club” trivia challenge—here’s everything happening at California indie bookshops on April 25.

This week’s bestselling titles include Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter, and Everything Now by Rosecrans Baldwin.

This week’s bestselling titles include How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay by Jenny Lawson, The Keeper by Tana French, and Your Retirement Sketchbook by Jamie Hopkins and Bonnie Treichel.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez, Kin by Tayari Jones, and The Best Dog in the World, edited by Alice Hoffman.

Here are works on and of the West, including The Oracle’s Daughter, Brand New Beat, and Questions 27 and 28 that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash, You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate, and Good Writing by Neal Allen and Anne Lamott.

Samantha Yazzie is building community, one hashtag at a time.

This week’s bestselling titles include The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and Judge Stone by Viola Davis and James Patterson.

This week’s bestselling titles include Kin by Tayari Jones, Young Man in a Hurry by Gavin Newsom, and Brawler by Lauren Groff.

Here are works on and of the West that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include Theo of Golden by Allen Levi, Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett, and The Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul Fischer.

This week’s bestselling titles include On Love by Joseph Campbell, Firestorm by Jacob Soboroff, and Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman.

This week’s bestselling titles include Heart the Lover by Lily King, A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst, and Strangers by Belle Burden.

This week’s bestselling titles include Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, and The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins.

Here are works on and of the West, including Evil Genius, A Killing in Cannabis, and Fifty Mothers, that we’re excited to see published this month.

This week’s bestselling titles include Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy, Theo of Golden by Allen Levi, and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.

This week’s bestselling titles include Hidden Potential by Adam Grant, The Long Game by Rachel Reid, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.