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 June 18, 2023.
California Book Club author Isabel Allende is featured on the list this week for her latest work, The Wind Knows My Name. The novel follows two young children (separated by eight decades) as they traverse unknown countries, unaccompanied by family and searching for a home. Another book debuting on the list this week is Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, by Maureen Ryan. She examines the movie industry’s social structure and the way its self-created myths allow exploitation and abuse to occur.
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
- Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Lisa See, Scribner, $28
- The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32
- Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29
- Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, Doubleday, $30
- Pageboy: A Memoir, Elliot Page, Flatiron Books, $29.99
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia, MD, with Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32
- Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, Maureen Ryan, Mariner Books, $32.50
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Trust, Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17
- Love, Theoretically, Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $17
- The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave, Marysue Rucci Books, $17.99
- Circe, Madeline Miller, Back Bay Books, $18.99
- The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, Penguin Books, $18
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann, Vintage, $17
- Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $18.99
- Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18
- All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
Northern California
HARDCOVER FICTION
- Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29
- Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50
- The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, Grove Press, $32
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
- The Wind Knows My Name, Isabel Allende, Ballantine Books, $28
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, Doubleday, $30
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
- Pageboy: A Memoir, Elliot Page, Flatiron Books, $29.99
- What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds, Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin Press, $30
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia, MD, with Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Trust, Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17
- The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, Penguin Books, $18
- Love, Theoretically, Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $17
- The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave, Marysue Rucci Books, $17.99
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann, Vintage, $17
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17
- Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris, Little, Brown, $18.99
- Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area, Olivia Allen-Price, Chronicle Books, $15.95
Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance
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.
