{"id":238179,"date":"2026-03-26T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:22:11","slug":"bestselling-books-in-california-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/238179\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling Books in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s shaping up to be a California Book Club<\/a> week on the bestsellers list, with several familiar names making an appearance. Amy Tan\u2019s The Backyard Bird Chronicles<\/a>, a journal she began in 2016 as a way to cope with the hatred and misinformation she saw online, continues to resonate with readers. September 2021 book club author, Rebecca Solnit<\/a>, is also on the list with The Beginning Comes After the End, a collection of essays that urges readers to hold on to hope. And from past California Book Club guest Karen Russell<\/a> comes The Antidote, a novel about a historic dust storm and its impact on the invented town of Uz.<\/p>\n

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

Southern CaliforniaHARDCOVER FICTION\"southern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

The Correspondent<\/a>, Virginia Evans, Crown, $28Kin<\/a>, Tayari Jones, Alfred A. Knopf, $32Vigil<\/a>, George Saunders, Random House, $28Heart the Lover<\/a>, Lily King, Grove Press, $28Lost Lambs<\/a>, Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28HARDCOVER NONFICTION\"southern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love<\/a>, Alice Hoffman (editor), Scribner, $22Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage<\/a>, Belle Burden, the Dial Press, $30A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness<\/a>, Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir<\/a>, Christina Applegate, Little, Brown and Company, $32Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery<\/a>, Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION\"southern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Project Hail Mary<\/a>, Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22Theo of Golden<\/a>, Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20Heated Rivalry<\/a>, Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99Dungeon Crawler Carl<\/a>, Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20The Lion Women of Tehran<\/a>, Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION\"southern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War<\/a>, Erik Larson, Crown, $22Raising Hare: A Memoir<\/a>, Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21The 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 Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change<\/a>, Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95. Watch the California Book Club event with the author<\/a>. Northern CaliforniaHARDCOVER FICTION\"northern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

The Correspondent<\/a>, Virginia Evans, Crown, $28Kin<\/a>, Tayari Jones, Alfred A. Knopf, $32Heart the Lover<\/a>, Lily King, Grove Press, $28Vigil<\/a>, George Saunders, Random House, $28Brawler: Stories<\/a>, Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $29HARDCOVER NONFICTION\"northern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness<\/a>, Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery<\/a>, Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love<\/a>, Alice Hoffman (editor), Scribner, $22Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage<\/a>, Belle Burden, the Dial Press, $30Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences<\/a>, Neal Allen and Anne Lamott, Avery, $27TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION \"northern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Theo of Golden<\/a>, Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20Project Hail Mary<\/a>, Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22Hamnet<\/a>, Maggie O\u2019Farrell, Vintage, $19Heated Rivalry<\/a>, Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99The Antidote<\/a>, Karen Russell, Vintage, $19. Watch the author in the California Book Club\u2019s 2021 gathering<\/a>. TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION\"northern<\/p>\n

Alta<\/p>\n

Raising Hare: A Memoir<\/a>, Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War<\/a>, Erik Larson, Crown, $2The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change<\/a>, Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $16.95. Watch the California Book Club event with the author<\/a>. The Backyard Bird Chronicles<\/a>, Amy Tan, Knopf, $36. Read a recap of the California Book Club<\/a> event. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century<\/a>, Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12<\/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":"It\u2019s shaping up to be a California Book Club week on the bestsellers list, with several familiar names…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2975,46733,12788,107369,93986,65286,46735,46736,46742,7,46734,9,8,20689,46743,46737,46738,107366,107367,107365,93988,46740,46744,46739,46741,107368],"class_list":["post-238179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-2975","tag-alta-bestseller-list","tag-alta-journal","tag-and-good-writing","tag-anne-lamott","tag-bestsellers-list","tag-bestselling-books","tag-book-recommendations","tag-book-roundup","tag-california","tag-california-books","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-christina-applegate","tag-fiction-bestsellers","tag-independent-bookstores","tag-literary-california","tag-lost-lambs","tag-madeline-cash","tag-march-26","tag-neal-allen","tag-new-book-releases","tag-nonfiction-bestsellers","tag-southern-california-bestsellers","tag-top-books","tag-you-with-the-sad-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238179","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=238179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}