Alta Journal’s California Bestsellers List (June 20, 2024)

Southern California

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. James, Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28. Read an excerpt in Alta.
2. All Fours, Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29. Read the Alta review.
3. Table for Two: Fictions, Amor Towles, Viking, $32
4. Eruption, Michael Crichton and James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $32
5. The Paris Novel, Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, Erik Larson, Crown Publishing Group, $35
2. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir, Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30. Read an excerpt in Alta.
3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
4. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius, Carrie Courogen, St. Martin’s Press, $30
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, Doubleday, $30

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Not in Love, Ali Hazelwood, Penguin Publishing Group, $19
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
3. Happy Place, Emily Henry, Berkley Books, $19
4. Just for the Summer, Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99
5. The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu and Ken Liu (translator), Tor Books, $18.99

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99
2. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks, William Morrow, $16.99
3. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19
4. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18
5. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22

Northern California

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. James, Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28. Read an excerpt in Alta.
2. All Fours, Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29. Read the Alta review.
3. Eruption, Michael Crichton and James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $32
4. Table for Two: Fictions, Amor Towles, Viking, $32
5. The Women, Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, Erik Larson, Crown, $35
2. The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, Doubleday, $30
4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30
5. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, Bill Maher, Simon & Schuster, $30

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Not in Love, Ali Hazelwood, Penguin Publishing Group, $19
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19
3. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Lisa See, Scribner, $18.99
4. Happy Place, Emily Henry, Berkley Books, $19
5. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig, Penguin Books, $18

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan, Knopf, $35
2. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99
3. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds, Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin Books, $19
4. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22
5. Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18. Watch Zamora’s California Book Club event.

Source: California Independent Booksellers Alliance

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.