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 28th, 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 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer, MCD, $30, 9780374616595 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Karla’s Choice: A John le Carré Novel
Nick Harkaway, Viking, $30, 9780593833490 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - The Life Impossible
Matt Haig, Viking, $30, 9780593489277 - The Book of Bill
Alex Hirsch, Hyperion Avenue, $26.99, 9781368092203 - The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich, Harper, $32, 9780063277052 - We Solve Murders
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $30, 9780593653227 - The Wood at Midwinter
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $16.99, 9781639734481
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- War
Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, $32, 9781668052273 - The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805 - 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 - Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir
Bruce Eric Kaplan, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250370334 - Brothers
Alex Van Halen, Harper, $32, 9780063265707 - 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 - Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras
Sarah Chapelle, St. Martin’s Griffin, $35, 9781250906151 - Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey, Doubleday, $30, 9780385550444
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - The Best American Short Stories 2024
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $19.99, 9780063275959 - Human Acts
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906743 - Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323 - The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933 - Prophet Song
Paul Lynch, Grove Press, $18, 9780802163523 - Babel
R. F. Kuang, Harper Voyager, $20, 9780063021433 - Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17, 9781635577808 - Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757 - The Employees
Olga Ravn, New Directions, $14.95, 9780811234825
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 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - STEM for All: How to Connect, Create, and Cultivate STEM Education for All Learners
Leena Bakshi McLean, Jossey-Bass, $30, 9781394221448 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, FSG, $18, 9780374532079 - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372 - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143 - Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Harper, $19.99, 9780062964663 - Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog, Penguin Books, $20, 9780593490310 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
MASS MARKET
- Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - The Shining
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743657 - The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572 - Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553293357 - The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318626 - Hiroshima
John Hersey, Vintage, $9.99, 9780679721031 - A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716 - Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, Signet, $6.95, 9780451528896 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
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 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526 - Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908 - Little Witch Cat: Finger Puppet Book
Emily Dove (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $7.99, 9781797228105 - Creepy Pair of Underwear!
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781442402980 - The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970 - Hello, World! From Seed to Pumpkin
Jill McDonald, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780593708248
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542 - The Thirteenth Child
Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593482582 - The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332 - When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
Alice Hoffman, Scholastic Press, $19.99, 9781338856941 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat
Li Chen, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 9781524882587 - Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Shea Ernshaw, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368069601 - Out of My Dreams
Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781665949545 - James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780142410363
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion - Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo, Henry Holt & Co. BYR - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers - Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin - InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, First Second - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
