With reports from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Alta-Journal brings you a list of the best-selling titles in independent bookstores in Northern and Southern California for the week ending August 18, 2024.

Get your TBR list with AltaExcerpts with titles from this week’s bestseller list. First comes James by Percival Everett. The California Book Club in May 2023 Author interprets Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the lens of Jim. Read an excerpt from Everett’s adaptation in AltaAlso on the list is The Friday Afternoon Club by actor, producer and director Griffin Dunne. In this autobiography, Dunne recounts his experiences – the good, the bad and everything in between – growing up in a family of prominent writers. Read an excerpt from Dunne’s book in Alta.

A complete list of titles and categories can be found in the California Independent Booksellers Alliance.•

Southern California

BOUND BALANCE SHEET

1. JamesPercival Everett, Doubleday, $28. Read a abstract In Alta.
2. Long Island CompromiseTaffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30
3. On all foursMiranda July, Riverhead Books, $29. Read the Alta review.
4. The womenKristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30
5. The God of the ForestLiz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30

HANGING NON-FICTION BOOK

1. The Creative Act: A Way of BeingRick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
2. The Art of Power: My Story as the First Female Speaker of the U.S. House of RepresentativesNancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30
3. On the sidelines: The art of risking everythingNate Silver, Penguin Press, $35
4. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family MemoirGriffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30. Read a abstract In Alta.
5. The Anxious Generation: How Childhood Restructuring Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental IllnessJonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30

PAPERBACKBOOK

1. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrowGabrielle Zevin, vintage, $19
2. It ends with us (Media supplement)Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99
3. The matingCasey McQuiston, St. Martin’s Griffin, $20
4. A courtyard of thorns and rosesSarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
5. Only for summerAbby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99

Paperbacks, non-fiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy: Memories of a family and culture in crisisJ.D. Vance, Harper, $18.99
2. The Chronicles of Backyard BirdsAmy Tan, button, $35
3. The Truths We Know: An American JourneyKamala Harris, Penguin, $20
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous ObsessionMichael Finkel, vintage, $18
5. The Four Promises: A Practical Guide to Personal FreedomDon Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills, Amber-Allen Publishing, $12.95

Northern California

BOUND BALANCE SHEET

1. JamesPercival Everett, Doubleday, $28. Read a abstract In Alta.
2. On all foursMiranda July, Riverhead Books, $29. Read the Alta review.
3. The God of the ForestLiz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30
4. The womenKristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30
5. Long Island CompromiseTaffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30

HANGING NON-FICTION BOOK

1. The Art of Power: My Story as the First Female Speaker of the U.S. House of RepresentativesNancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30
2. On the sidelines: The art of risking everythingNate Silver, Penguin Press, $35
3. The Creative Act: A Way of BeingRick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
4. The Demon of Unrest: A saga of hubris, heartbreak and heroism at the beginning of the civil warErik Larson, crown, $35
5. Autocracy, Inc.: The dictators who want to rule the worldAnne Applebaum, Doubleday, $27

PAPERBACKBOOK

1. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrowGabrielle Zevin, vintage, $19
2. It ends with us (Media supplement)Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99
3. A courtyard of thorns and rosesSarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
4. The matingCasey McQuiston, St. Martin’s Griffin, $20
5. A court of fog and rageSarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19

Paperbacks, non-fiction

1. The Chronicles of Backyard BirdsAmy Tan, button, $35
2. The Truths We Know: An American JourneyKamala Harris, Penguin, $20
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous ObsessionMichael Finkel, vintage, $18
4. Sweetgrass weaving: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plantsRobin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20
5. The Hundred Years’ War against Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99

Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance

Elizabeth Casillas is an editorial assistant at Alta-JournalA graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, she previously wrote for Poly Posts And Enspire Magazine.