Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (March 22, 2023)

With reporting from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Alta Journal brings you a list of the bestselling titles at independent bookstores across Northern and Southern California for the week ending March 19, 2023.

This week’s list offers two novels about family bonds. Pacific Northwest author Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds, published this month, tells the tale of a woman fighting to keep her family alive during the Great Depression and the difficult choice she faces between staying on a dying farm in Texas and moving to California. And Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano’s homage to Little Women, recounts the story of a young man who, after being rejected by his own family, finds a new one with Julia Padavano and her three sisters.

For a full list of titles and categories, visit the California Independent Booksellers Alliance.•

Southern California

HARDCOVER FICTION

Alta

1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
2. I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai, Viking, $28. Read the Alta review
3. Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano, Dial Press, $28
4. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50
5. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

Alta

1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
2. I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99
3. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99
4. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear, Avery, $27
5. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age, Katherine May, Riverhead Books, $26

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

Alta

1. Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $17
2. The Candy House, Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $17.99
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
4. The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $18.99
5. It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria Books, $16.99

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

Alta

1. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Penguin Books, $19
3. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills, Amber-Allen Publishing, $12.95
4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $20
5. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20

Northern California

HARDCOVER FICTION

Alta

1. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
3. Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano, Dial Press, $28
4. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories, Margaret Atwood, Doubleday, $30
5. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

Alta

1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
2. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99
3. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, Jenny Odell, Random House, $28.99. Read the Alta interview
4. It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, Bernie Sanders, Crown, $28
5. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, Malcolm Harris, Little, Brown, $36. Read the Alta review

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

Alta

1. The Candy House, Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $17.99
2. Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $17
3. The Maid, Nita Prose, Ballantine Books, $18
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
5. The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley, William Morrow, $18.99

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

Alta

1. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20
2. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
3. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $20
4. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Anna Lembke, MD, Dutton, $18
5. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Penguin Books, $19

Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance

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