The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Nov. 5 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. Tom Lake: Ann Patchett
2. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
3. The Exchange: John Grisham
4.The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
5. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
6. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
7. The Fraud: Zadie Smith
8. Roman Stories: Jhumpa Lahiri, Todd Portnowitz (Transl.)
9. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women: Lisa See
10. The Secret: Lee Child, Andrew Child
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Woman in Me: Britney Spears
2. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
3. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon: Michael Lewis
4. Elon Musk: Walter Isaacson
5. Be Seen: Find Your Voice. Build Your Brand. Live Your Dream.: Jen Gottlieb
6. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: David Brooks
7. Enough: Cassidy Hutchinson
8.The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
9. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir: Werner Herzog
10. Being Henry: The Fonz … and Beyond: Henry Winkler
MASS MARKET
1. Elvis and Me: Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon
2. Animal Farm: George Orwell
3. Dune: Frank Herbert
4. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
6. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
7. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
9. In the Company of Witches: Auralee Wallace
10. Hiroshima: John Hersey
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Trust: Hernan Diaz
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
3. The Way Forward: Yung Pueblo
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
6. All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
7. The Shards: Bret Easton Ellis
8. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
9. The Cat Who Saved Books: Sosuke Natsukawa
10. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology: Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.)
