{"id":52490,"date":"2025-10-03T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:16:11","slug":"bestselling-books-in-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52490\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling Books in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

With reporting from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Alta Journal brings you a list of the bestselling titles at independent bookstores across Northern and Southern California for the week ending September 28, 2025. <\/p>\n

Check out two new fantastical releases this week. Ian McEwan\u2019s latest novel What We Can Know opens in 2014 with the reading of a poem at a dinner party. More than a century later, in 2119, researcher Thomas Metcalfe, obsessed with the early twenty-first century, searches for the original poem, uncovering truths about a history he thought he understood. Alchemised, by SenLinYu, tells the story of alchemist Helena Marino in the aftermath of a long war. Suspected of collusion by the corrupt government, Helena is sent to work with a necromancer who may be the key to unlocking the secrets of her past.<\/p>\n

For a full list of titles and categories, visit the California Independent Booksellers Alliance<\/a>.\u2022<\/p>\n

Southern CaliforniaHARDCOVER FICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Alchemised<\/a>, SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35What We Can Know<\/a>, Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30The Secret of Secrets<\/a>, Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai<\/a>, Hogarth, $32Katabasis (deluxe limited edition)<\/a>, R.F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $35HARDCOVER NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

107 Days<\/a>, Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation<\/a>, Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35Faithonomics: The Wealth is in the Kingdom, the Legacy is in the Story<\/a>, Jerry Lopez, Jerry Lopez (publisher), $28.99Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love<\/a>, Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45Poems & Prayers<\/a>, Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $29TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Project Hail Mary<\/a>, Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22The City and Its Uncertain Walls<\/a>, Haruki Murakami and Philip Gabriel (translator), Vintage, $19Remarkably Bright Creatures<\/a>, Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99I Who Have Never Known Men<\/a>, Jacqueline Harpman and Ros Schwartz (translator), Transit Books, $16.95All Fours<\/a>, Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $19. Read the Alta review<\/a>.TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Alignment: A Montessori Approach to Reimagining Work-Life Balance<\/a>, Katie Keller Wood, Page Two, $18.95All About Love: New Visions<\/a>, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99The Artist\u2019s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity<\/a>, Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24Didion and Babitz<\/a>, Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20. Read the Alta interview<\/a>. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World<\/a>, Anne Applebaum, Vintage, $18Northern CaliforniaHARDCOVER FICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

The Secret of Secrets<\/a>, Dan Brown, Doubleday, $38What We Can Know<\/a>, Ian McEwan, Knopf, $30Alchemised<\/a>, SenLinYu, Del Rey, $35The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai<\/a>, Hogarth, $32My Friends<\/a>, Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, $29.99HARDCOVER NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

107 Days<\/a>, Kamala Harris, Simon & Schuster, $30Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love<\/a>, Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation<\/a>, Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead Books, $35Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy<\/a>, Mary Roach, W.W. Norton & Company, $28.99Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit<\/a>, Bren\u00e9 Brown, Random House, $32TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION \"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Remarkably Bright Creatures<\/a>, Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99The City and Its Uncertain Walls<\/a>, Haruki Murakami and Philip Gabriel (translator), Vintage, $19Martyr!<\/a>, Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18. Watch the author speak at a California Book Club event<\/a>.Project Hail Mary<\/a>, Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22Tell Me Everything<\/a>, Elizabeth Strout, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/a>, Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12The Backyard Bird Chronicles<\/a>, Amy Tan, Knopf, $36. Read a recap of the California Book Club<\/a> event. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession<\/a>, Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18All About Love: New Visions<\/a>, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth<\/a>, Zo\u00eb Schlanger, Harper Perennial, $19.99<\/p>\n

Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance<\/a><\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Casillas is an assistant editor at Alta Journal. A graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, she has previously written for the Poly Post and Enspire Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With reporting from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Alta Journal brings you a list of the bestselling titles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[40071,22308,22314,22310,4123,22317,412,22304,22309,146,22318,85,22311,46,22312,22315,22319,40072,22313,40070,22316],"class_list":["post-52490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-107-days-by-kamala-harris","tag-alta-bestseller-list","tag-alta-journal","tag-bestselling-books","tag-book-recommendations","tag-book-roundup","tag-books","tag-california-bestsellers","tag-california-books","tag-entertainment","tag-fiction-bestsellers","tag-il","tag-independent-bookstores","tag-israel","tag-literary-california","tag-new-book-releases","tag-nonfiction-bestsellers","tag-poems-and-prayers-by-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-southern-california-bestsellers","tag-the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-by-kiran-desai","tag-top-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}