Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (February 15, 2024)

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 February 11, 2024.

This week, the bestsellers list features the California Book Club’s June 2024 title, Solito, by Javier Zamora. The memoir recounts Zamora’s harrowing journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was only nine years old: a trek full of unforeseen obstacles and acts of kindness. Also on the list is The Women, by Washington author Kristin Hannah, which follows Frances McGrath’s journey from a sheltered life in Southern California to the trenches of the Vietnam War, a fictional tale inspired by the very real women involved in the war.

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

Southern California

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Women, Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28
3. North Woods, Daniel Mason, Random House, $28. Read the Alta review.
4. House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $32
5. Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, Doubleday, $30
3. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones, James Clear, Avery, $27
4. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks, Random House, $30
5. Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, $35

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Horse, Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19
2. Bride, Ali Hazelwood, Berkley Books, $19
3. Trust, Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
5. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $21
3. How to Love, Thich Nhat Hanh and Jason DeAntonis (illustrator), Parallax Press, $9.95
4. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (movie tie-in edition), David Grann, Vintage, $18
5. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19

Northern California

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Women, Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28
3. North Woods, Daniel Mason, Random House, $28. Read the Alta review.
4. Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28
5. House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $32

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, Doubleday, $30
3. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks, Random House, $30
4. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones, James Clear, Avery, $27
5. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia, MD, with Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Bride, Ali Hazelwood, Berkley Books, $19
2. Horse, Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
4. Trust, Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17
5. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
2. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (movie tie-in edition), David Grann, Vintage, $18
3. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi, Picador, $19.99
4. Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18
5. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $21

Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance

Elizabeth Casillas

Elizabeth Casillas is an associate editor at Alta Journal. A graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, she has previously written for the Poly Post and Enspire Magazine.