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 November 12, 2023.
Those titles include Resurrection Walk, by the California Book Club’s April 2022 author, Michael Connelly. In this crime fiction novel, The Lincoln Lawyer’s Mickey Haller and ex–LAPD detective Harry Bosch join forces to prove one woman’s innocence against all odds. Another bestseller: Barbra Streisand’s recent memoir, My Name Is Barbra, recounts the performer’s early days in Brooklyn and glamorous adventures in Hollywood. Streisand spares no detail as she delves into her personal histories with megastars including Marlon Brando and Judy Garland.
For a full list of titles and categories, visit the California Independent Booksellers Alliance.•
Southern California
HARDCOVER FICTION
- Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros, Red Tower Books, $29.99
- Fourth Wing (special edition), Rebecca Yarros, Red Tower Books, $32.99
- Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, Red Tower Books, $29.99
- Resurrection Walk, Michael Connelly, Little, Brown, $30. Read Alta’s coverage of Connelly’s work here.
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand, Viking, $47
- The Woman in Me, Britney Spears, Gallery Books, $32.99
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
- Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Rachel Maddow, Crown, $32
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, Doubleday, $30
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Trust, Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17
- Bookshops and Bonedust, Travis Baldree, Tor Books, $17.99
- The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99
- Big Swiss, Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, $18
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (movie tie-in edition), David Grann, Vintage, $18
- All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
- Novelist As a Vocation, Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $17
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills, Amber-Allen Publishing, $12.95
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi, Picador, $19.99
Northern California
HARDCOVER FICTION
- Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros, Red Tower Books, $29.99
- Fourth Wing (special edition), Rebecca Yarros, Red Tower Books, $32.99
- Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, Red Tower Books, $29.99
- Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50
- Resurrection Walk, Michael Connelly, Little, Brown, $30. Read Alta’s coverage of Connelly’s work here.
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand, Viking, $47
- Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Rachel Maddow, Crown, $32
- The Woman in Me, Britney Spears, Gallery Books, $32.99
- How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks, Random House, $30
- Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Heather Cox Richardson, Viking, $30
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Trust, Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $18.99
- Bookshops and Bonedust, Travis Baldree, Tor Books, $17.99
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (movie tie-in edition), David Grann, Vintage, $18
- All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
- Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18
- Stay True: A Memoir, Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17. Read Alta’s coverage here.
- Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $17.99
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.
