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 Cor respondent: 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 Related Articles Why David Guterson was waiting his whole life to write ‘Evelyn in Transit’ How Matthew Pearl decided to have some fun with his dark novel ‘The Award’ ‘Infinite Jest’ at 30: Why its editor says it’s ‘more valuable than ever’ ‘The Copywriter’ author Daniel Poppick composed text for a queen The Book Pages: The end of a newspaper book section ...read more read less