This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Sept. 10 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. Tom Lake: Ann Patchett
2. Holly: Stephen King
3. The Fraud: Zadie Smith
4. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
5. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
7. The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese
8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
9. The Guest: Emma Cline
10. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
4. Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere: Maria Bamford
5. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments: Joe Posnanski
6. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
7. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma: Mustafa Suleyman
8. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future: Franklin Foer
9. The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto: Jonathan Taplin
10. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm: George Orwell
2. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
3. 1984: George Orwell
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
5. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
6. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
7. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
8. Dune: Frank Herbert
9. Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Trust: Hernan Diaz
2. Babel: R.F. Kuang
3. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
4. A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara
5. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
8. Our Missing Hearts: Celeste Ng
9. Big Swiss: Jen Beagin
10. The Secret History: Donna Tartt