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 26, 2023.
Two Los Angeles–based authors debut on the list this week with wildly different books. Actor, comedian, and filmmaker Seth Rogen’s Yearbook is a collection of amusing essays about his grandparents, summer camps, and the mishaps he’s suffered since moving to Los Angeles from Vancouver, British Columbia. And novelist Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer tugs at our heartstrings with its powerful tale about the unconditional love between a mother and a daughter. Read them both and you’re likely to laugh and cry.
For a full list of titles and categories, visit the California Independent Booksellers Alliance.
Southern California
HARDCOVER FICTION
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
- I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai, Viking, $28. Read the Alta review
- Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29
- Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano, Dial Press, $28
- Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
- Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond, Crown, $28
- I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99
- Am I Pretty When I Fly? An Album of Upside Down Drawings, Joan Baez, Godine, $45
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $17
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
- The Candy House, Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $17.99
- One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle, Atria Books, $17.99
- It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, Atria Books, $16.99
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Yearbook, Seth Rogen, Crown, $18
- Meditations: A New Translation, Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Penguin Books, $19
- All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
- Just Kids, Patti Smith, Ecco, $16.99
Northern California
HARDCOVER FICTION
- Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
- Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50
- Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano, Dial Press, $28
- I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai, Viking, $28. Read the Alta review
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond, Crown, $28
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
- Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, Malcolm Harris, Little, Brown, $36. Read the Alta review
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99
- I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
- Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $17
- The Candy House, Jennifer Egan, Scribner, $17.99
- The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19
- The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley, William Morrow, $18.99
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
- Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $20
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Penguin Books, $19
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills, Amber-Allen Publishing, $12.95
Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance
