This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 19 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. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan
3. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
4. All Fours: Miranda July
5. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
6. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls: Grady Hendrix
7. The Big Empty: Robert Crais
8. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
9. The City and Its Uncertain Walls: Haruki Murakami
10. Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins
2. Aflame: Learning from Silence: Pico Iyer
3. The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Didion and Babitz: Lili Anolik
5. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.)
6. The State of Fire: Why California Burns: Obi Kaufmann
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
9. Cher: The Memoir, Part One: Cher
10. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm: George Orwell
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
4. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
6. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
7. Warbreaker: Brandon Sanderson
8. The Well of Ascension: Brandon Sanderson
9. Think and Grow Rich: Napoleon Hill
10. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Orbital: Samantha Harvey
2. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
3. Parable of the Sower: Octavia E. Butler
4. Yellowface: R. F. Kuang
5. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
6. North Woods: Daniel Mason
7. The Vegetarian: Han Kang
8. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon
9. Babel: R. F. Kuang
10. Circe: Madeline Miller