Alta Journal’s California Bestseller List (August 24, 2022)

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Alta newspaperwith reports from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, brings you this handy list of top-selling titles at independent bookstores in Northern and Southern California for the sales week ending August 21, 2022.

These titles include Heat 2, a novel by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Mann and Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner. Inspired by the 1995 film Heat, Heat 2 follows LAPD Detective Vincent Hanna as he tracks down elite criminal Chris Shiherlis. If you’re a fan of police procedurals, check out Michael Connelly The dark hoursthe Selection April 2022 of Highit is California Book Club. Also on this week’s list is Mercury Pictures Presentsby Anthony Marra. Revised by Highthe novel introduces readers to Maria Lagana, an Italian immigrant trying to make her way in Hollywood during World War II.

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

Southern California

HARDBACK FICTION

High

  1. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrowGabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
  2. Chemistry classBonnie Garmus, Double Day, $29
  3. HorseGeraldine Brooks, Viking, $28
  4. Heat 2Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner, William Morrow & Company, $28.99
  5. Mercury Pictures Presents, Anthony Marra, Hogarth Press, $28.99. Read it High exam

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    High

    1. Crying in H Mart: A MemoirMichelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95
    2. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of AngelsPaul Pringle, Celadon Books, $29.99
    3. The worst assistant in the worldSona Movsesian, Feather, $26
    4. I’m glad my mother diedJennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99
    5. Atomic Habits: An Easy, Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad OnesJames Clear, Avery, $27

      COMMERCIAL POCKET FICTION

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      High

      1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoTaylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
      2. Where the Crawdads singDelia Owens, GP Putnam’s Sons, $18
      3. The Song of AchillesMadeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99
      4. It ends with usColleen Hoover, Atria Books, $16.99
      5. book loversEmily Henry, Berkeley, $17

        COMMERCIAL PAPER NON-FICTION

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        High

        1. All About Love: New Visionsbell hooks, William Morrow & Company, $16.99
        2. Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in Trauma HealingBessel van der Kolk, MD, Penguin Books, $19
        3. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal FreedomDon Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen Publishing, $12.95
        4. Advanced to Bethlehem: EssaysJoan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17
        5. Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari, Perennial Harper, $24.99

          Northern California

          HARDBACK FICTION

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          High

          1. HorseGeraldine Brooks, Viking, $28
          2. The Last White ManMohsin Hamid, Riverhead Books, $26
          3. Chemistry classBonnie Garmus, Double Day, $29
          4. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrowGabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28
          5. sea ​​of ​​tranquilityEmily St. John Mandel, Knopf, $25

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            High

            1. Happy-Go-LuckyDavid Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $29
            2. The High Sierra: A Love StoryKim Stanley Robinson, Little, Brown and Company, $40
            3. Crying in H Mart: A MemoirMichelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95
            4. Atomic Habits: An Easy, Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad OnesJames Clear, Avery, $27
            5. A Huge World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsEd Yong, Random House, $30

              COMMERCIAL POCKET FICTION

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              High

              1. Where the Crawdads singDelia Owens, GP Putnam’s Sons, $18
              2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn HugoTaylor Jenkins Reid, Washington Square Press, $17
              3. TruthColleen Hoover, Grand Central Publishing, $16.99
              4. book loversEmily Henry, Berkeley, $17
              5. CirceMadeline Miller, Back Bay Books, $16.99

                COMMERCIAL PAPER NON-FICTION

                alta journal california bestsellers, northern california, nonfiction paperback trade

                High

                1. All About Love: New Visionsbell hooks, William Morrow & Company, $16.99
                2. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Science and Plant TeachingsRobin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Publishing, $20
                3. This is your opinion on plantsMichael Pollan, Penguin Books, $18
                4. Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in Trauma HealingBessel van der Kolk, MD, Penguin Books, $19
                5. To do work! An anti-racism workbookW. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz, Workman Publishing, $22.95

                  Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance