The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Nov. 20 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. Our Missing Hearts: Celeste Ng
5. Galatea: A Short Story: Madeline Miller
6. Liberation Day: George Saunders
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
8. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
9. Foster: Claire Keegan
10. Horse: Geraldine Brooks
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times: Michelle Obama
2. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
3. A Book of Days: Patti Smith
4. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story: Bono
5. The Philosophy of Modern Song: Bob Dylan
6. Novelist as a Vocation: Haruki Murakami
7. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook: Ina Garten
8. Cinema Speculation: Quentin Tarantino
9. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human: Siddhartha Mukherjee
10. Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files: Deb Perelman
MASS MARKET
1. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
3. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman
5. Animal Farm: George Orwell
6. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
7. Fire & Blood: George R.R. Martin
8. The Well of Ascension: Brandon Sanderson
9. A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin
10. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. It Starts with Us: Colleen Hoover
2. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. Circe: Madeline Miller
5. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
6. Legends & Lattes: Travis Baldree
7. My Year of Rest and Relaxation: Ottessa Moshfegh
8. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr
9. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
10. The Best American Short Stories 2022: Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.)
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