Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

Published on Oct 7, 2024

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,September 29, 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

  1. Intermezzo
    Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
  2. James
    Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
  3. Playground
    Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
  4. The Empusium
    Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593712948
  5. Tell Me Everything
    Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
  6. All Fours
    Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
  7. Colored Television
    Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372
  8. Creation Lake
    Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
  9. The God of the Woods
    Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
  10. Somewhere Beyond the Sea
    TJ Klune, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250881205
  11. The Life Impossible
    Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277
  12. We Solve Murders
    Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227
  13. Here One Moment
    Liane Moriarty, Crown, $30, 9780593798607
  14. Blue Sisters
    Coco Mellors, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723760
  15. Martyr!
    Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  1. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
    Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
  2. A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It
    Leigh McGowan, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $29.99, 9781668066430
  3. On Freedom
    Timothy Snyder, Crown, $32, 9780593728727
  4. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
    Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668017234
  5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
    Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
  6. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
    Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593298640
  7. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
    Sonia Purnell, Viking, $35, 9780593297803
  8. Connie: A Memoir
    Connie Chung, Grand Central Publishing, $32.5, 9781538766989
  9. The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House
    Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047
  10. Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves
    Stephen Colbert, Evie McGee Colbert, Celadon Books, $35, 9781250859990
  11. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
  12. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
    Gillian Anderson, Harry N. Abrams, $28, 9781419777295
  13. I’m Still Here: A Dog’s Purpose Forever
    Cathryn Michon, Seth Taylor (Illus.), Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.99, 9781524893811
  14. The Reset Mindset: Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster
    Penny Zenker, Amplify Publishing, $19.95, 9798891382299
  15. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
    Wright Thompson, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593299821

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

  1. Demon Copperhead
    Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
  2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
  3. The Bee Sting
    Paul Murray, Picador, $20, 9781250338259
  4. Project Hail Mary
    Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228
  5. The Midnight Library
    Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
  6. Record of a Night Too Brief
    Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Transl.), Pushkin Press, $15.95, 9781805331407
  7. Fourth Wing
    Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
  8. Us Fools
    Nora Lange, Two Dollar Radio, $18.95, 9781953387516
  9. The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde, Vintage, $10, 9780307743527
  10. The Thursday Murder Club
    Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
  11. The Alchemist
    Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007
  12. A Gentleman in Moscow
    Amor Towles, Penguin, $18, 9780143110439
  13. The Secret History
    Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702
  14. Family Lore
    Elizabeth Acevedo, Ecco, $18.99, 9780063207271
  15. My Brilliant Friend
    Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

  1. The Truths We Hold
    Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739
  2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
  3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
    Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
  4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
  5. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
    Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
  6. All About Love: New Visions
    bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
  7. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
    Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780062964663
  8. The 2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac
    Old Farmer’s Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932
  9. Justice in Palestine
    Mahatma Gandhi, Eris, $6, 9781916809888
  10. Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
    Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
  11. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
    Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143
  12. The Old Jewish Men’s Guide to Eating, Sleeping, and Futzing Around
    Noah Rinsky, Workman Publishing Company, $19.99, 9781523523566
  13. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
    Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
  14. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
    Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
  15. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
    Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324105817

MASS MARKET

  1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
  2. Interview with the Vampire
    Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665
  3. 1984
    George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
  4. The Catcher in the Rye
    J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
  5. Mistborn: The Final Empire
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
  6. The Name of the Wind
    Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
  7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
  8. Slaughterhouse-Five
    Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
  9. Hamlet
    William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451669411
  10. The Fall of Hyperion
    Dan Simmons, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553288209

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

  1. Room on the Broom
    Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409
  2. Bluey’s Halloween Mix-and-Match
    Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593752838
  3. Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
    Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533
  4. Little Witch Cat: Finger Puppet Book
    Emily Dove (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797228105
  5. Grumpy Monkey Play All Day
    Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $19.99, 9780593709283
  6. How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat?
    Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338891980
  7. Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
    Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797226552
  8. Grumpy Monkey Don’t Be Scared
    Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $10.99, 9780593486955
  9. Room on the Broom Special Edition
    Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593859926
  10. Don’t Tickle the Ghost!
    Sam Taplin, Ana Martin Larranaga (Illus.), Usborne, $17.99, 9781805075158

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

  1. Impossible Creatures
    Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
  2. When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
    Alice Hoffman, Scholastic Press, $19.99, 9781338856941
  3. The Poet X
    Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $15.99, 9780062662811
  4. The Tale of Despereaux
    Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763680893
  5. Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
    Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877
  6. Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet
    Geo Rutherford, Abrams Books for Young Readers, $24.99, 9781419770531
  7. Sisters: A Graphic Novel
    Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880
  8. The Thirteenth Child
    Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593482582
  9. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
    Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361
  10. The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien (A Graphic Novel)
    John Hendrix, Abrams Fanfare, $24.99, 9781419746345

CHILDREN'S SERIES

  1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
    Rick Riordan, Hyperion
  2. The Wild Robot
    Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  3. Spy School
    Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  4. Dog Man
    Dav Pilkey, Graphix
  5. The Princess in Black
    Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick
  6. Dory Fantasmagory
    Abby Hanlon, Puffin
  7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Jeff Kinney, Amulet
  8. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
    Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix
  9. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
    Holly Jackson, Ember
  10. Magic Tree House
    Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers

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