Number One in Hardcover Fiction: Intermezzo:by Sally Rooney,
published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,October 13th, 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
- Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Colored Television
Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593712948 - The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227 - The Last Dream
Pedro Almodóvar, HarperVia, $26, 9780063349766 - Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst, Random House, $30, 9780593243060
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805 - Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779 - Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras
Sarah Chapelle, St. Martin’s Griffin, $35, 9781250906151 - Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn (Illus.), One World, $26, 9780593729960 - Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment
Jason Schreier, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538725429 - On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $32, 9780593728727 - Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
Casey Means, M.D., Calley Means, Avery, $32, 9780593712641 - From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough, Random House, $32, 9780593733875 - Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Harry N. Abrams, $28, 9781419777295
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut, Penguin Books, $18, 9780593654491 - A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228 - The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa, HarperVia, $18.99, 9780063095731 - Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090 - Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog, Penguin, $20, 9780593490310 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, FSG, $18, 9780374532079 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - The 2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac
, Old Farmer’s Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $19.99, 9780062964663 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $21.99, 9780316299220 - Who by Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen
Matti Friedman, Spiegel & Grau, $20, 9781954118447 - Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807014271
MASS MARKET
- Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657 - The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $9.99, 9781250773012 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477543 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
Oscar Wilde, Signet, $6.95, 9780451530455
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel: A Short Tale About a Short Tail
Chris Pine, Chuck Groenink (Illus.), Flamingo Books, $18.99, 9780593528228 - Bluey’s Halloween Mix-and-Match
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593752838 - Creepy Carrots!
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781442402973 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - The Yowlers
Stacy Lynn Carroll, Molly Ruttan (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $18.99, 9780593109885 - Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071 - Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797226552
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665947138 - The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361 - Heir
Sabaa Tahir, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780593616949 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732 - Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A LOVE Story
Jason Reynolds, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $19.99, 9781665961271 - Spy School Entrance Exam: A Spy School Book of Devious Word Searches, Clever Crosswords, Sly Sudoku, and Other Top Secret Puzzles!
Stuart Gibbs, Jeff Chen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9781665951364 - The Last Dragon on Mars
Scott Reintgen, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665946513 - The Sherlock Society
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932530
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi, Graphix - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, First Second - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
