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 22, 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
- We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227 - The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Colored Television
Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372 - Somewhere Beyond the Sea
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250881205 - Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $30, 9780593798607 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - Rejection: Fiction
Tony Tulathimutte, William Morrow, $28, 9780063337879 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - The Night We Lost Him
Laura Dave, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $28.99, 9781668002933
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668017234 - Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593298640 - Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Abrams Press, $28, 9781419777295 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Connie: A Memoir
Connie Chung, Grand Central Publishing, $32.50, 9781538766989 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell, Viking, $35, 9780593297803 - I’m Still Here: A Dog’s Purpose Forever
Cathryn Michon, Seth Taylor (Illus.), Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.99, 9781524893811 - Lovely One: A Memoir
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Random House, $35, 9780593729908 - The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl, Spiegel & Grau, $32, 9781954118461 - Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, $27, 9780385549936 - The Reset Mindset: Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster
Penny Zenker, Amplify Publishing, $19.95, 9798891382299 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Picador, $20, 9781250338259 - A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707 - It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover, Atria, $16.99, 9781668055960 - The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987 - The Fraud
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $19, 9780525558989 - The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570 - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Lisa See, Scribner, $18.99, 9781982117092 - The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
Amor Towles (Ed.), Jenny Minton Quigley (Ed.), Vintage, $19, 9780593470619 - Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433 - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin, $18, 9780525522133 - The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- 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 Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143 - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250849359 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Sy Montgomery, Matt Patterson (Illus.), Mariner Books, $21.99, 9780063394230 - The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781668065969 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286 - Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324105817 - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Matthew Perry, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250866455
MASS MARKET
- Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Bantam Classics, $5.95, 9780553213102 - Hiroshima
John Hersey, Vintage, $9.99, 9780679721031 - Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $9.99, 9781250773012 - American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110 - A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat?
Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338891980 - Room on the Broom Special Edition
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593859926 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Creepy-Crawly Halloween
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $12.99, 9780593751084 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - 5 More Sleeps ’til Halloween
Jimmy Fallon, Rich Deas (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250857798 - The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970 - Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801 - Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533 - Little Witch Cat: Finger Puppet Book
Emily Dove (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797228105
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - The Sherlock Society
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932530 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196 - The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361 - The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - Celestial Monsters
Aiden Thomas, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250822086 - Dogtown
Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250811622 - Real Friends
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781626727854 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix - Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Gabriella Chianello (Illus.), Aladdin - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
