This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 8 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. James: Percival Everett
2. Wind and Truth: Brandon Sanderson
3. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
4. All Fours: Miranda July
5. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan
6. The City and Its Uncertain Walls: Haruki Murakami
7. Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner
8. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
9. Playground: Richard Powers
10. The Waiting: Michael Connelly
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.)
2. The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir: Ina Garten
4. Didion and Babitz: Lili Anolik
5. Cher: The Memoir, Part One: Cher
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
7. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
8. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI: Yuval Noah Harari
9. Patriot: A Memoir: Alexei Navalny
10. Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook: Yotam Ottolenghi
MASS MARKET
1. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
2. Animal Farm: George Orwell
3. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
5. 1984: George Orwell
6. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
7. A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
10. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Orbital: Samantha Harvey
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
3. North Woods: Daniel Mason
4. The Vegetarian: Han Kang
5. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
6. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon
7. Wicked: Gregory Maguire
8. The Best American Short Stories 2024: Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.)
9. The Overstory: Richard Powers
10. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman