This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 22 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. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
3. All Fours: Miranda July
4. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan
5. The City and Its Uncertain Walls: Haruki Murakami
6. The Women: Kristin Hannah
7. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
8. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
9. Playground: Richard Powers
10. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir: Ina Garten
2. Cher: The Memoir, Part One: Cher
3. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.)
4. Patriot: A Memoir: Alexei Navalny
5. The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates
6. Didion and Babitz: Lili Anolik
7. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
8. Carson the Magnificent: Bill Zehme
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
MASS MARKET
1. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
2. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
4. 1984: George Orwell
5. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
6. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
7. Small Gods: A Novel of Discworld: Terry Pratchett
8. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin
9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
10. God Emperor of Dune: Frank Herbert
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Orbital: Samantha Harvey
2. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver84
3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
4. North Woods: Daniel Mason
5. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
6. The Best American Short Stories 2024: Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.)
7. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante
8. The Berry Pickers: Amanda Peters
9. The Hunter: Tana French
10. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros