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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 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

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