The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Nov. 16 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 Strength of the Few: James Islington
2. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
3. Heart the Lover: Lily King
4. The Proving Ground: Michael Connelly
5. Brigands & Breadknives: Travis Baldree
6. The Black Wolf: Louise Penny
7. Shadow Ticket: Thomas Pynchon
8. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
9. Gone Before Goodbye: Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon
10. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
2. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
3. The Uncool: A Memoir: Cameron Crowe
4. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice: Virginia Roberts Giuffre
5. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman
6. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
7. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm: Charlie Mackesy
8. The Look: Michelle Obama
9. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: Samin Nosrat
10. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts: Margaret Atwood
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. Animal Farm: George Orwell
3. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
5. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
6. Oathbringer: Brandon Sanderson
7. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
8. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
9. The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
10. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The City and Its Uncertain Walls: Haruki Murakami
2. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
3. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
4. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
5. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
6. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text: Mary Shelley
7. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
8. How About Now: Poems: Kate Baer
9. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
10. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon