This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

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.)