The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Sept. 1 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. Long Island Compromise: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
2. The Women: Kristin Hannah
3. All Fours: Miranda July
4. James: Percival Everett
5. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
6. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
7. The Paris Novel: Ruth Reichl
8. By Any Other Name: Jodi Picoult
9. The Book of Bill: Alex Hirsch
10. Table for Two: Fictions: Amor Towles
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi
3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
4. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir: Griffin Dunne
5. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
6. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything: Nate Silver
7. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir: Anna Marie Tendler
8. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs: Luis Elizondo
9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War: Erik Larson
10. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine: Daniel J. Levitin
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
3. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
5. A Game of Thrones: George R. R. Martin
6. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Oscar Wilde
7. The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger
8. The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. Carrie: Stephen King
10. Macbeth: William Shakespeare
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
2. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante
3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
5. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
6. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
7. The Housemaid: Freida McFadden
8. Circe: Madeline Miller
9. Big Swiss: Jen Beagin
10. The Silent Patient: Alex Michaelides
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