Number One in Hardcover Fiction The Life Impossible:by Rachel Kushner,
published by Scribner.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,September 15, 2024. This list 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
- Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277 - Somewhere Beyond the Sea
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250881205 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723760 - Colored Television
Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $30, 9780593798607 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $30, 9780593133491 - We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E. Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749 - The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302 - Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, $30, 9780385547994
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - I’m Still Here: A Dog’s Purpose Forever
Cathryn Michon, Seth Taylor (Illus.), Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.99, 9781524893811 - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824 - Guinness World Records 2025
Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781913484569 - Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome
Venus Williams, Amistad, $29.99, 9780063278233 - The Reset Mindset: Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster
Penny Zenker, Amplify Publishing, $19.95, 9798891382299 - The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, $32, 9781954118461 - Dungeons & Dragons Rpg: Players Handbook
Wizards of the Coast, $49.99, 9780786969517 - Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs
Luis Elizondo, William Morrow, $29.99, 9780063235564
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Picador, $20, 9781250338259 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463 - A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583 - Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781455563920 - Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090 - The Fraud
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $19, 9780525558989 - Long Live Evil
Sarah Rees Brennan, Orbit, $19.99, 9780316568715 - The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593470619
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Happy Hustle Version 2.0: 10 Alignments To Avoid Burnout & Achieve Blissful Balance
Cary Jack, Storybuilders Press, $15.99, 9781954521513 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $18, 9781400078431 - The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The 2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac
Old Farmer’s Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932 - How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9780984627110 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487 - A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716 - Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553293357 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686 - True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala, $6.99, 9781590304044 - American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - Bluey’s Halloween Mix-and-Match
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593752838 - Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Corduroy
Don Freeman, Viking Children’s Books, $7.99, 9780451470799 - I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $7.99, 9780375827785 - Not Quite Narwhal
Jessie Sima, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781481469098 - Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Celestial Monsters
Aiden Thomas, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250822086 - A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272 - The Sherlock Society
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932530 - Oliver’s Great Big Universe
Jorge Cham, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419764080 - The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332 - The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780375842207 - Unico: Awakening (Volume 1): An Original Manga
Tezuka Osamu, Samuel Sattin, Gurihiru (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781339036335 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Amy June Bates (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665925723
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - Who Was/Is…?
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Dave Shephard (Illus.), Scholastic - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
