The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Oct. 6 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. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
2. Playground: Richard Powers
3. James: Percival Everett
4. All Fours: Miranda July
5. The Life Impossible: Matt Haig
6. We Solve Murders: Richard Osman
7. Tell Me Everything: Elizabeth Strout
8. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
9. The Women: Kristin Hannah
10. Colored Television: Danzy Senna
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir: Ina Garten
2. The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI: Yuval Noah Harari
4. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
5. On Freedom: Timothy Snyder
6. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
7. The Coming Golden Age: 31 Ways to Be Kingdom Ready: David Jeremiah, Thomas Nelson
8. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty: Hillary Rodham Clinton
9. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous: Gillian Anderson
10. Connie: A Memoir: Connie Chung
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
4. Interview with the Vampire: Anne Rice
5. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
7. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie
8. Rich Dad Poor Dad: Robert T. Kiyosaki
9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
10. Words of Radiance: Brandon Sanderson
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
3. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
4. The Bee Sting: Paul Murray
5. North Woods: A Novel: Daniel Mason
6. The Housemaid: Freida McFadden
7. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
8. The MANIAC: Benjamin Labatut
9. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante
10. The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners: Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.)
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