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
- Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031 - The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593712948 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Colored Television
Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Somewhere Beyond the Sea
TJ Klune, Tor Books, $28.99, 9781250881205 - The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277 - We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227 - Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $30, 9780593798607 - Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723760 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It
Leigh McGowan, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $29.99, 9781668066430 - On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $32, 9780593728727 - Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781668017234 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593298640 - Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell, Viking, $35, 9780593297803 - Connie: A Memoir
Connie Chung, Grand Central Publishing, $32.5, 9781538766989 - The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668048047 - Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves
Stephen Colbert, Evie McGee Colbert, Celadon Books, $35, 9781250859990 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Gillian Anderson, Harry N. Abrams, $28, 9781419777295 - I’m Still Here: A Dog’s Purpose Forever
Cathryn Michon, Seth Taylor (Illus.), Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.99, 9781524893811 - The Reset Mindset: Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster
Penny Zenker, Amplify Publishing, $19.95, 9798891382299 - The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson, Penguin Press, $35, 9780593299821
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Picador, $20, 9781250338259 - Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - Record of a Night Too Brief
Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Transl.), Pushkin Press, $15.95, 9781805331407 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - Us Fools
Nora Lange, Two Dollar Radio, $18.95, 9781953387516 - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, Vintage, $10, 9780307743527 - The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $18, 9780143110439 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - Family Lore
Elizabeth Acevedo, Ecco, $18.99, 9780063207271 - My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $20, 9780525560739 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - 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 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780062964663 - The 2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac
Old Farmer’s Almanac, $10.95, 9781571989932 - Justice in Palestine
Mahatma Gandhi, Eris, $6, 9781916809888 - Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255 - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143 - The Old Jewish Men’s Guide to Eating, Sleeping, and Futzing Around
Noah Rinsky, Workman Publishing Company, $19.99, 9781523523566 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324105817
MASS MARKET
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345337665 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296 - Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451669411 - The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553288209
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $9.99, 9780593110409 - Bluey’s Halloween Mix-and-Match
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593752838 - Little Blue Truck’s Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $13.99, 9780544772533 - Little Witch Cat: Finger Puppet Book
Emily Dove (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797228105 - Grumpy Monkey Play All Day
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $19.99, 9780593709283 - How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat?
Jane Yolen, Mark Teague (Illus.), Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338891980 - Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue!
Sherri Duskey Rinker, AG Ford (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $18.99, 9781797226552 - Grumpy Monkey Don’t Be Scared
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $10.99, 9780593486955 - Room on the Broom Special Edition
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593859926 - Don’t Tickle the Ghost!
Sam Taplin, Ana Martin Larranaga (Illus.), Usborne, $17.99, 9781805075158
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
Alice Hoffman, Scholastic Press, $19.99, 9781338856941 - The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo, Quill Tree Books, $15.99, 9780062662811 - The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo, Timothy Basil Ering (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763680893 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet
Geo Rutherford, Abrams Books for Young Readers, $24.99, 9781419770531 - Sisters: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801880 - The Thirteenth Child
Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593482582 - The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361 - 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
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers