Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (February 29, 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 25, 2024.

Two new titles make their debut on the bestsellers list this week. Cleopatra and Frankenstein, a novel by Los Angeles–based author Coco Mellors, tells the story of Cleo, a 24-year-old painter, and Frank, the man she impulsively marries, who’s 20 years her senior. In Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, journalist Charles Duhigg explores the basics of communication and provides tips on how to improve conversation skills.

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. Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28. Watch the California Book Club event.
4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
5. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50

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. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, Charles Duhigg, Random House, $30
4. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, Ed Zwick, Gallery Books, $28.99
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, Michael Finkel, Knopf, $28

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
3. Trust, Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17
4. Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors, Bloomsbury Publishing, $18.99
5. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
2. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir, Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99
3. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi, Picador, $19.99
4. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19
5. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (movie tie-in edition), David Grann, Vintage, $18

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. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50
5. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29

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. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, Charles Duhigg, Random House, $30

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (movie tie-in edition), David Grann, Vintage, $18
2. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
3. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi, Picador, $19.99
4. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir, Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99
5. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17

Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance

Elizabeth Casillas

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.