This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 21 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
1. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
2. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
3. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
4. Flesh: David Szalay
5. Heart the Lover: Lily King
6. Dog Show: Poems: Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.)
7. The Secret of Secrets: Dan Brown
8. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
9. House of Day, House of Night: Olga Tokarczuk
10. Audition: Katie Kitamura
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
2. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
3. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
4. The Look: Michelle Obama
5. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: Samin Nosrat
6. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman
7. The Uncool: A Memoir: Cameron Crowe
8. The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
9. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm: Charlie Mackesy
10. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. Animal Farm: George Orwell
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
4. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin
5. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
6. Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse
7. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
8. Carrie: Stephen King
9. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
10. The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
2. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
3. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
4. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
5. The Princess Bride Deluxe Limited Edition: William Goldman
6. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
7. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
8. Annihilation: Jeff VanderMeer
9. Isola: Allegra Goodman
10. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon