The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 14 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. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
2. Heart the Lover: Lily King
3. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
4. Flesh: David Szalay
5. Stone Yard Devotional: Charlotte Wood
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
7. My Friends: Fredrik Backman
8. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
9. Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan
10. The Secret of Secrets: Dan Brown
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Uncool: A Memoir: Cameron Crowe
2. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
3. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
4. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
5. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: Samin Nosrat
6. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm: Charlie Mackesy
7. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
8. Neurogiving: The Science of Donor Decision-Making: Cherian Koshy
9. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman
10. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats: Ursula K. Le Guin
MASS MARKET
1. Animal Farm: George Orwell
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie
5. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
6. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
7. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
8. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie
9. Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
2. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
3. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon
4. Playground: Richard Powers
5. Train Dreams: Denis Johnson
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
7. The Housemaid: Freida McFadden
8. Isola: Allegra Goodman
9. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
10. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Solvej Balle, Barbara J. Haveland (Transl.)