The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Bestsellers List for the week ended Sept. 13 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. Whistler: Ann Patchett
2. Switzy: Emma Cline
3. The Pirate Queen: Ariel Lawhon
4. The Disappearers: Marlon James
5. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
6. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce): Caro Claire Burke
7. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett
8. Under Story: Chloe Benjamin
9. Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition): R.F. Kuang
10. The Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time: Sarah Longwell
2. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: Patrick Radden Keefe
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
4. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham
5. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump: Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark
6. The Little Frog’s Guide to Hope: Love, Wisdom and Affirmations for Tough Days from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
7. The Land and Its People: Essays: David Sedaris
8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
9. The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men: Jon Ronson
10. The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
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. Circe: Madeline Miller
6. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
7. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
8. The Odyssey: Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.)
9. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
10. Wild Dark Shore: Charlotte McConaghy
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It: Cory Doctorow
2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain
3. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
4. Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain
5. Just Kids: Patti Smith
6. Communion: The Female Search for Love: bell hooks
7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
8. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
9. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
10. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were): Eve Babitz