The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, including hardcover and paperback ...

1. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of an heiress. 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An ...

1. The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books: $30) The latest mystery in the Armand Gamache series. 2. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (Crown: $28) A lifelong letter writer reckons with a ...

The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks. At its zenith in the second half of the ...

We were walking our dogs when Karen told me the mass-market paperback--the familiar 5-by-7-inch book you could slip into the ...