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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List for the week ended Oct. 11 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. American Hagwon: Min Jin Lee

2. Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection) (The Empyrean): Rebecca Yarros

3. The Disappearers: Marlon James

4. Exit Party: Emily St.John Mandel

5. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett

6. Hollywood, Ending: John Green

7. The Pirate Queen: Ariel Lawhon

8. Partita: Barbara Kingsolver

9. Whistler: Ann Patchett

10. The French Illusion (The French Illusion Series): John Grisham

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State: Michael Lewis

2. Roll the Calls: A Memoir: Ari Emanuel

3. The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic: Malcolm Gladwell

4. Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up: David Byrne

5. One Helluva Ride: Michael Douglas

6. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy: Gil Durán

7. Fictional Selves: A Memoir: Kyle MacLachlan

8. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham

9. The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World: Nathaniel Philbrick

10. Swan Song: Diana, my sister: Charles Spencer

PAPERBACK FICTION

1. East of Eden: John Steinbeck

2. Fruit Fly: Josh Silver

3. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi

4. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman

5. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

6. The Wedding People: Alison Espach

7. May We Feed the King: Rebecca Perry

8. Lonesome Dove: Larry McMurtry

9. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro

10. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

1. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks

2. Mother Mary Comes to Me: Arundhati Roy

3. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith

4. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron

5. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature: Emily Wilson

6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion

7. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain

8. We’ve Been Here the Whole Time!: A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America: Joey Clift, Julie Fiveash (Illus.)

9. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel

10. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were): Eve Babitz

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