Number One in Hardcover Fiction James:,by Percival Everett,
published by St. Doubleday.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,December 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
- James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741 - Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635 - The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970 - Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096 - Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521 - The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370 - We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
Syou Ishida, E.Madison Shimoda (Transl.), Berkley, $25, 9780593818749 - Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031 - Colored Television
Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593544372
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $29.99, 9781668065488 - Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223 - What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687 - The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
Mel Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366 - The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - Ottolenghi Comfort: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $37.99, 9780399581779 - Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny, Knopf, $35, 9780593320969 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Griffin Dunne, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490 - The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118 - Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984 - Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371 - The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987 - North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040 - The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070 - Wicked
Gregory Maguire, William Morrow Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780062852847 - Annihilation (10th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff VanderMeer, Picador, $18, 9781250824042 - The Hunter
Tana French, Penguin, $19, 9780593493458 - The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384 - The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702 - A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $18, 9780143110439 - Normal People
Sally Rooney, Crown, $17, 9781984822185
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9780984627110 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, FSG, $18, 9780374532079 - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, Vintage, $20, 9780307279286 - The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein, Picador, $20, 9781250338143 - Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324105817 - World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767 - Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World
Mary Beard, Liveright, $21.99, 9781324095606 - Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255
MASS MARKET
- The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935 - The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ace, $10.99, 9780441478125 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383 - The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780544580145 - A Dragon for Hanukkah
Sarah Mlynowski, Ariel Landy (Illus.), Orchard Books, $18.99, 9781338897524 - The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968 - Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801 - Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526 - How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767 - Bluey: Bartlebee’s First Christmas
Joe Brumm, Emily Baulch, Penguin Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593755068 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860 - Heavenly Tyrant
Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books, $20.99, 9780735269989 - The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel
Christopher Lincoln, Dial Books, $13.99, 9780593617663 - The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - Mouse and His Dog
Katherine Applegate, Gennifer Choldenko, Wallace West (Illus.), Feiwel & Friends, $17.99, 9781250345004 - A Wolf Called Wander
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780062895943 - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley, $15.99, 9780063203877 - The Squad: A Graphic Novel
Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338741315 - The Grandest Game
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316481014 - The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Puffin, $9.99, 9780147510488
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic - Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw (Illus.), Graphix - Arc of a Scythe
Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
