The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended March 5 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. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
2. I Have Some Questions for You: Rebecca Makkai
3. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
4. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
5. A Day of Fallen Night: Samantha Shannon
6. Someone Else’s Shoes: Jojo Moyes
7. Foster: Claire Keegan
8. Victory City: Salman Rushdie
9. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Rupert Holmes
10. Horse: Geraldine Brooks
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
3. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
4. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy: James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams
5. It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism: Bernie Sanders
6. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age: Katherine May
7. 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go: Jay Shetty
8. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World: Malcolm Harris
9. Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth: Pamela Anderson
10. Spare: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
MASS MARKET
1. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
4. Lord of the Flies: William Golding
5. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
6. All Quiet on the Western Front: Erich Maria Remarque
7. Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card
8. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
9. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Oscar Wilde
10. The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Daisy Jones & The Six: Taylor Jenkins Reid
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
3. Circe: Madeline Miller
4. The Paris Apartment: Lucy Foley
5. The Silent Patient: Alex Michaelides
6. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
7. The School for Good Mothers: Jessamine Chan
8. The Sentence: Louise Erdrich
9. Play It As It Lays: Joan Didion
10. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
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