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,November 10th, 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 Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328137 - The Waiting
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown and Company, $30, 9780316563796 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - The Wood at Midwinter
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $16.99, 9781639734481 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Karla’s Choice: A John le Carré Novel
Nick Harkaway, Viking, $30, 9780593833490 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press, $21.99, 9781335915283 - The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593712948
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969 - War
Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668052273 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Brothers
Alex Van Halen, Harper, $32, 9780063265707 - What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687 - Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Al Pacino, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593655115 - Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 9780374611996 - Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779 - Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times
Gregory Boyle, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668061855 - The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
S.H. Fernando Jr., Astra House, $30, 9781662602177 - Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - Roman Year: A Memoir
André Aciman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374613389
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Best American Short Stories 2024
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $19.99, 9780063275959 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $15.95, 9780525435006 - Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $17, 9781451673319 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323 - The Teller of Small Fortunes
Julie Leong, Ace, $19, 9780593815915
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 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257 - The Best American Essays 2024
Wesley Morris, Kim Dana Kupperman (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063351554 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286 - All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310 - City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis, Verso, $21.95, 9781786635891 - Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance, Harper, $18.99, 9780062300553 - Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $21.99, 9780316017930 - Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
David Leonhardt, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $25, 9780812983333
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553588941 - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062073488 - The Secret
Lee Child, Andrew Child, Dell, $10.99, 9781984818614 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665 - Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451669411 - Moby-Dick
Herman Melville, Bantam Classics, $5.95, 9780553213119 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553283686 - True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh, Shambhala, $6.99, 9781590304044
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Construction Site: A Thankful Night
Sherri Duskey Rinker, Helen Morgan (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $12.99, 9781797226729 - The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - The Smell of Wet Dog: And Other Dog Poems and Drawings
Barney Saltzberg, Neal Porter Books, $18.99, 9780823456390 - Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh!
Mo Willems, Union Square Kids, $18.99, 9781454952770 - Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007 - Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780060229351 - The Crayons Give Thanks
Drew Daywalt (Illus.), Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593690574 - Santa’s First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542 - Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801903 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781534467637 - Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known
George M. Johnson, Charly Palmer (Illus.), Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $18.99, 9780374391249 - Where the Library Hides
Isabel Ibańez, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250822994 - We Could Be Heroes
Margaret Finnegan, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9781534445260 - A Study in Drowning (Collector’s Deluxe Limited Edition)
Ava Reid, HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063419414
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The First Cat in Space
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Scholastic
