{"id":165946,"date":"2026-02-06T00:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:37:11","slug":"bestselling-books-in-california-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165946\/","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 February 1, 2026. <\/p>\n

This week\u2019s bestsellers list features two new releases. George Saunder\u2019s latest novel Vigil follows Jill Blaine, a dead woman whose job is to console and guide clients into the afterlife. When she meets K.J. Boone, a controversial man who believes he has nothing to regret, Jill\u2019s training is put to the test. Also on the list is Strangers, a memoir by Belle Burden. After her husband leaves their twenty-year marriage with no explanation, Burden revisits the relationship through her writing, searching for clues about what might have been its undoing.<\/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

The Correspondent<\/a>, Virginia Evans, Crown, $28Vigil<\/a>, George Saunders, Random House, $28Half His Age<\/a>, Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30Heart the Lover<\/a>, Lily King, Grove Press, $28Wild Dark Shore<\/a>, Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99HARDCOVER NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This<\/a>, Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck<\/a>, Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28Football<\/a>, Chuck Klosterman, Penguin Press, $32Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage<\/a>, Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can\u2019t Stop Talking About<\/a>, Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins, Hay House, $29.99TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Theo of Golden<\/a>, Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20Hamnet<\/a>, Maggie O\u2019Farrell, Vintage, $19Heated Rivalry<\/a>, Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99Project Hail Mary<\/a>, Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22The God of the Woods<\/a>, Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/a>, Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants<\/a>, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20Slouching Towards Bethlehem<\/a>, Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality<\/a>, Amanda Montell, Atria\/One Signal Publishers, $19All About Love: New Visions<\/a>, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99Northern CaliforniaHARDCOVER FICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

The Correspondent<\/a>, Virginia Evans, Crown, $28Vigil<\/a>, George Saunders, Random House, $28Half His Age<\/a>, Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny<\/a>, Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32Heart the Lover<\/a>, Lily King, Grove Press, $28HARDCOVER NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History\u2014and How It Shattered a Nation<\/a>, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking, $35The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can\u2019t Stop Talking About<\/a>, Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins, Hay House, $29.99Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love<\/a>, Samin Nosrat, Random House, $45Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage<\/a>, Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This<\/a>, Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION \"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Theo of Golden<\/a>, Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20Hamnet<\/a>, Maggie O\u2019Farrell, Vintage, $19Heated Rivalry<\/a>, Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99Project Hail Mary<\/a>, Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22The God of the Woods<\/a>, Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION\"books,<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/a>, Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts<\/a>, Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19All About Love: New Visions<\/a>, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants<\/a>, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art<\/a>, James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $20<\/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":165947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46733,12788,46735,46736,46742,647,7,46728,46734,9,8,46743,80059,46737,46738,46740,46744,46739,80060,46741,80058],"class_list":{"0":"post-165946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-alta-bestseller-list","9":"tag-alta-journal","10":"tag-bestselling-books","11":"tag-book-recommendations","12":"tag-book-roundup","13":"tag-books","14":"tag-california","15":"tag-california-bestsellers","16":"tag-california-books","17":"tag-california-headlines","18":"tag-california-news","19":"tag-fiction-bestsellers","20":"tag-hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell","21":"tag-independent-bookstores","22":"tag-literary-california","23":"tag-new-book-releases","24":"tag-nonfiction-bestsellers","25":"tag-southern-california-bestsellers","26":"tag-the-let-them-theory-by-mel-robbins-and-sawyer-robbins","27":"tag-top-books","28":"tag-wild-dark-shore-by-charlotte-mcconaghy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}