The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Nov. 13 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. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
2. The Passenger: Cormac McCarthy
3. Desert Star: Michael Connelly
4. The Last Chairlift: John Irving
5. Foster: Claire Keegan
6. Liberation Day: George Saunders
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
8. Our Missing Hearts: Celeste Ng
9. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
10. Shuna’s Journey: Hayao Miyazaki, Alex Dudok de Wit (Translation)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story: Bono
2. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook: Ina Garten
3. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
4. Cinema Speculation: Quentin Tarantino
5. The Philosophy of Modern Song: Bob Dylan
6. What’s for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People: Claire Saffitz
7. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir: Matthew Perry
8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human: Siddhartha Mukherjee
9. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle: Jon Meacham
10. Solito: A Memoir: Javier Zamora
MASS MARKET
1. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
3. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Scott Lynch
4. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Quentin Tarantino
6. Fire & Blood: George R. R. Martin
7. Interview with the Vampire: Anne Rice
8. The Shining: Stephen King
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
10. Bayou Book Thief: Ellen Byron
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. It Starts with Us: Colleen Hoover
2. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
5. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr
6. Circe: Madeline Miller
7. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Crossroads: Jonathan Franzen
9. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Shehan Karunatilaka
10. Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens
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