The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List for the week ended Sept. 6 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Disappearers: Marlon James
2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce): Caro Claire Burke
3. Under Story: Chloe Benjamin
4. The Knave and the Moon (The Stonewater Kingdom #2): Rachel Gillig
5. Whistler: Ann Patchett
6. Big Little Truths: Liane Moriarty
7. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett
8. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
9. Life of M: Rachel Cusk
10. Land: Maggie O’Farrell
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Land and Its People: Essays: David Sedaris
2. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
3. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump: Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark
4. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy: Gil Durán
5. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: Patrick Radden Keefe
6. The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living: Dara Horn
7. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State: Jill Lepore
8. Biological War: A Scenario: Annie Jacobsen
9. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
10. Guinness World Records 2027: Guinness World Records
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
2. East of Eden: John Steinbeck
3. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
4. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
5. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2): Matt Dinniman
6. The Odyssey: Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.)
7. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
8. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
9. Circe: Madeline Miller
10. Project Hail Mary : Andy Weir
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature: Emily Wilson
2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain
3. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce): Sophie Elmhirst
4. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
5. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: Updated Sixth Edition: David Gebhard, et al.
6. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were): Eve Babitz
7. Raising Hare: A Memoir: Chloe Dalton
8. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
9. Golden State: The Making of California: Michael Hiltzik
10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel