The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Feb. 8 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans

2. Vigil: George Saunders

3. Half His Age: Jennette McCurdy

4. Heart the Lover: Lily King

5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai

6. Flesh: David Szalay

7. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan

8. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy

9. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan

10. Lost Lambs: Madeline Cash

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst

2. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin

3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden

4. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad

5. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

6. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton

7. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith

8. Football: Chuck Klosterman

9. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster: Jacob Soboroff

10. Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon: Toni Morrison

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid

2. Game Changer: Rachel Reid

3. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): Emily Brontë, Ruben Toledo (Illus.)

4. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi

5. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

6. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

7. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

8. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley

9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

10. Red Rising: Pierce Brown

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy

2. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks

3. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder

5. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion

6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell

7. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things: Adam Grant

8. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me: Patrick Bringley

9. Fight Oligarchy: Senator Bernie Sanders

10. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor

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