The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec, 3 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. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
2. Tom Lake: Ann Patchett
3. North Woods: Daniel Mason
4. Resurrection Walk: Michael Connelly
5. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
6. The Fraud: Zadie Smith
7. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver, Harper
8. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
9. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men: Claire Keegan
10. Day: Michael Cunningham
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. My Name Is Barbra: Barbra Streisand
3. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism: Rachel Maddow
4. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: David Brooks
5. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
6. The Woman in Me: Britney Spears
7. The Cookie That Changed My Life: And More Than 100 Other Classic Cakes, Cookies, Muffins, and Pies That Will Change Yours: Nancy Silverton, Carolynn Carreno
8. Elon Musk: Walter Isaacson
9. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America: Heather Cox Richardson
10. My Effin’ Life: Geddy Lee
MASS MARKET
1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
5. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
6. Elvis and Me: Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon
7. Animal Farm: George Orwell
8. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Scott Lynch
9. Guards! Guards!: Terry Pratchett
10. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Trust: Hernan Diaz
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
3. All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
4. Babel: R.F. Kuang
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology: Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.)
8. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
9. Big Swiss: Jen Beagin
10. The Idiot: Elif Batuman
