This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 29 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. All Fours: Miranda July
3. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan
4. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
5. The Women: Kristin Hannah
6. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
7. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
8. The City and Its Uncertain Walls: Haruki Murakami
9. Tell Me Everything: Elizabeth Strout
10. Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir: Ina Garten
2. Didion and Babitz: Lili Anolik
3. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI: Yuval Noah Harari
4. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts): Stanley Tucci
5. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins
6. The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates
7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
8. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.)
9. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
MASS MARKET
1. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
4. Animal Farm: George Orwell
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
6. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
8. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin
9. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
10. Dune: Frank Herbert
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Orbital: Samantha Harvey
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
3. The Vegetarian: Han Kang
4. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
5. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
6. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
7. North Woods: Daniel Mason
8. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon
9. Wicked: Gregory Maguire
10. Annihilation (10th Anniversary Edition): Jeff VanderMeer