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. 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.
3. Lessons in chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday: $29) In the 1960s, a chemist becomes a single mother, then a celebrity chef.
4. How to sell a haunted house by Grady Hendrix (Berkley: $28) A successful woman returns to Charleston to prepare her late parents’ house for sale.
5. horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking: $28) Before the Civil War, an enslaved young man, a racehorse and an artist begin a complex story that spans generations.
6. The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (Button: $30) A group of teenage friends in Los Angeles in 1981 believe a serial killer is out to get them.
7. The house in the pines by Ana Reyes (Dutton: $27) After recovering from the trauma of her best friend’s sudden death, a woman learns of an eerily similar incident.
8. Hell bent by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron: $30) A supernatural sequel to Ninth House.
9. Little things like this by Claire Keegan (Grove: $20) During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal dealer in an Irish village makes a disturbing discovery.
10. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Viking: $26) A reader in an infinite library must choose what kind of life he wants to lead.
Bound books
1st replacement by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (Random House: $36) A seminal and controversial treatise on British royalty.
2. The creative act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) Instructions from the music producer on how to be a creative person.
3. 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.
4. The half-known life by Pico Iyer (Riverhead: $26) The author’s global quest for heaven on earth.
5. Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino (Harper: $35) The Oscar-winning filmmaker talks about the films and filmmakers that have most impacted his career.
6. Giving up by Bono (Button: $34) The U2 frontman tells his story in 40 songs.
7. Save Aziz by Chad Robichaux (Thomas Nelson: $29) A US Marine’s quest to help his former translator leave Afghanistan turns into an all-out attempt to help thousands.
8. 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.
9. A huge world by Ed Yong (Random House: $30) An exploration of the senses of man and nature.
10. Still Images by Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $26) The late author tells her life story with a series of photographs to stimulate her memories.
Fiction in Paperback
1. It starts with us by Colleen Hoover (Atria: $18)
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square: $17)
3. The maid by Nita Prose (Ballantine: $18)
4th circle by Madeline Miller (Back Bay: $17)
5. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine: $17)
6. It ends with us by Colleen Hoover (Atria: $17)
7. Clare and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage: $17)
8. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ecco: $18)
9. The silent patient by Alex Michaelides (Celadon: $18)
10. The personal librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray (Berkley: $17)
Non-fiction book in paperback
1. All about love by Bell Hooks (Tomorrow: $17)
2. Weave sweet grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed: $20)
3. The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk (Penguin: $19)
4. The unbound soul by Michael A. Singer (New Herald: $19)
5. How to love by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Image) (Parallax: $10)
6. Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Krone: $18)
7. The four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber Allen: $13)
8. Those precious days by Ann Patchett (Harper: $18)
9. Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke (Dutton: $18)
10. The report of January 6th by The House 6th Committee (Celadon: $18)
