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 - The Waiting
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316563796 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031 - Colored Television
Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372 - The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335430991 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - Forest of Noise: Poems
Mosab Abu Toha, Knopf, $22, 9780593803974
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - War
Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668052273 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Al Pacino, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593655115 - From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough, Random House, $32, 9780593733875 - Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292 - Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn (Illus.), One World, $26, 9780593729960 - Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 - What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - Blackouts
Justin Torres, Picador, $20, 9781250338068 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin, $18, 9780525522133 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118 - Normal People
Sally Rooney, Crown, $17, 9781984822185 - The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624 - Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263 - Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition)
Mick Herron, Soho Crime, $18.95, 9781641292979 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - The Guest
Emma Cline, Random House, $18, 9780812988031
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - 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 - Down the Drain
Julia Fox, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668011515 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
Heidi Honeycutt, Headpress, $32.95, 9781915316295 - Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Isabella Hammad, Grove Press, Black Cat, $18, 9780802163929 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller, Simon & Schuster, $17.99, 9781501160349 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, FSG, $18, 9780374532079 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99, 9780062316110
MASS MARKET
- Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665 - The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345534835 - Dracula
Bram Stoker, Bantam, $4.95, 9780553212716 - The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pocket, $9.99, 9781982146702 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
Oscar Wilde, Signet, $6.95, 9780451530455 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala, $6.99, 9781590304044
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- 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 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Bluey’s Halloween Mix-and-Match
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593752838 - Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533 - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle (Illus.), Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $8.99, 9780805047905 - This Is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $18.99, 9780763655990 - Where to Hide a Star
Oliver Jeffers, Philomel Books, $22.99, 9780593622247
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732 - 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 - The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542 - Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney, Abrams, $14.99, 9781419756979 - When the World Tips Over
Jandy Nelson, Dial Books, $21.99, 9780525429098 - Heir
Sabaa Tahir, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780593616949 - Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat
Li Chen, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9781524882587 - Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
Yuval Noah Harari, Ricard Zaplana Ruiz (Illus.), Bright Matter Books, $14.99, 9780593711552
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 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin - Chronicles of the Avatar
F.C. Yee, Abrams - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, DK Yingst (Illus.), Graphix - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember
