The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Oct. 20 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California IndependentBooksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney
2. The Waiting: Michael Connelly
3. All Fours: Miranda July
4. Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner
5. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
6. James: Percival Everett
7. Tell Me Everything: Elizabeth Strout
8. Playground: Richard Powers
9. Colored Television: Danzy Senna
10. The Life Impossible: Matt Haig
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. War: Bob Woodward
3. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir: Ina Garten
4. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI: Yuval Noah Harari
5. Sonny Boy: A Memoir: Al Pacino
6. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir: Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough
7. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts: Oliver Burkeman
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
9. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir: Griffin Dunne
10. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
MASS MARKET
1. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. Interview with the Vampire: Anne Rice
4. The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Dracula: Bram Stoker
6. The Great Gatsby: F.Scott Fitzgerald
7. Dune: Frank Herbert
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
9. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
10. True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart: Thich Nhat Hanh
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
2. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
3. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
4. North Woods: Daniel Mason
5. Blackouts: Justin Torres
6. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
7. My Year of Rest and Relaxation: Ottessa Moshfegh
8. My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante
9. The Vegetarian: Han Kang
10. Normal People: Sally Rooney