by SoCal bestseller
Bound Fiction
1. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Button: $28) Lifelong BFFs collaborate on a hugely successful video game.
2. I have some questions for you by Rebecca Makkai (Viking: $28) A film professor-turned-podcaster returns to her boarding school and becomes involved in the investigation of a murder that occurred there while she was a student.
3. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $33) The story of a boy born in the Appalachian Mountains to a single teenage mother living in poverty.
4. Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday: $29) In the 1960s, a chemist becomes a single mother, then a celebrity chef.
5. A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury: $35) Four women work to save the world in this prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree.
6. Old babes in the woods by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday: $30) A collection of short stories by the author of The Handmaid’s Tale.
7. Every man a king by Walter Mosley (Mulholland: $28) Joe King Oliver is asked to investigate on behalf of a white nationalist accused of espionage and murder in this sequel to Down the River Unto the Sea.
8. Birnam wood by Eleanor Catton (FSG: $28) A New Zealand environmental collective forms an uncomfortable alliance with an American billionaire doomsteader.
9. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (Pamela Dorman: $28) The wealth of old money is turned on its head in a novel about three women in a Brooklyn family.
10. Someone else’s shoes by Jojo Moyes (Pamela Dorman: $29) A struggling professional woman has a life-changing experience when she tries on a pair of shoes belonging to a wealthy divorcee.
Bound books
1. The creative act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The Music Producer’s Guide to Becoming a Creative Person.
2. Enchantment by Katherine May (Riverhead: $26) The author of “Wintering” takes readers on her journey to find what was missing in her life.
3. I’m glad my mother died by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster: $28) A memoir by the star of the TV series iCarly and Sam & Cat.
4. The size mindset by Lewis Howes (Hay House: $27) A self-help guide to living your best life from the author of The School of Greatness.
5. It’s okay to be angry with capitalism by Bernie Sanders, John Nichols (Krone: $28) The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate takes on modern capitalism.
6. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne: $23) A modern fable explores life’s universal lessons through four archetypes.
7. Time saving by Jenny Odell (Random House: $29) The author of How to Do Nothing proposes new ways of experiencing time.
8. Unscripted by James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams (Penguin: $32) The inside story of the struggle for control of the multi-billion dollar entertainment empire run by the Redstone family.
9. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery: $27) The self-help expert’s guide to building good habits and breaking bad habits through tiny behavior changes.
10. 8 rules of love by Jay Shetty (Simon & Schuster: $29) Romantic advice from the author of Think Like a Monk.
Fiction in Paperback
1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square: $17)
2. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine: $17)
3. The candy house by Jennifer Egan (Scribner: $18)
4. The Paris apartment by Lucy Foley (Tomorrow: $19)
5. The maid by Nita Prose (Ballantine: $18)
6. It ends with us by Colleen Hoover (Atria: $17)
7. An Italian summer by Rebecca Serle (Atria: $18)
8. A dish of thorns and roses by Sarah J Maas (Bloomsbury: $19)
9. Sparring partner by John Grisham (Year: $18)
10. Parable of the sower by Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central: $17)
Non-fiction book in paperback
1. All about love by Bell Hooks (Tomorrow: $17)
2. Bow down to Bethlehem by Joan Didion (FSG: $17)
3. Those precious days by Ann Patchett (Harper: $18)
4. The body records the score by Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin: $19)
5. Braid sweet grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed: $20)
6. The four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber Allen: $13)
7. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Modern Library: $11)
8th caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House: $20)
9. Confessions of a corporate killer by John Perkins (Berrett-Koehler: $22)
10. We don’t know ourselves by Fintan O’Toole (Live rights: $20)
