The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Nov. 6 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. The Passenger: Cormac McCarthy
2. Our Missing Hearts: Celeste Ng
3. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
4. Liberation Day: George Saunders
5. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
7. The Last Chairlift: John Irving
8. Shuna’s Journey: Hayao Miyazaki, Alex Dudok de Wit (Transl.)
9. No Plan B: Lee Child, Andrew Child
10. The Cloisters: Katy Hays
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook: Ina Garten
2. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story: Bono
3. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle: Jon Meacham
4. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir: Matthew Perry
5. The Philosophy of Modern Song: Bob Dylan
6. Cinema Speculation: Quentin Tarantino
7. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
8. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America: Maggie Haberman
9. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir: Paul Newman
10. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
MASS MARKET
1. Fire & Blood: George R. R. Martin
2. Animal Farm: George Orwell
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
4. The Shining: Stephen King
5. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
8. The Well of Ascension: Brandon Sanderson
9. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
10. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. It Starts with Us: Colleen Hoover
2. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
3. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Shehan Karunatilaka
4. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. The Sentence: Louise Erdrich
7. Verity: Colleen Hoover
8. Malibu Rising: Taylor Jenkins Reid
9. The Best American Short Stories 2022: Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.)
10. Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens