The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Nov. 27 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. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
2. The Passenger: Cormac McCarthy
3. Desert Star: Michael Connelly
4. Our Missing Hearts: Celeste Ng
5. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
6. Foster: Claire Keegan
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
8. Liberation Day: George Saunders
9. Horse: Geraldine Brooks
10. Galatea: A Short Story: Madeline Miller
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times: Michelle Obama
2. A Book of Days: Patti Smith
3. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
4. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook: Ina Garten
5. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story: Bono
6. Cinema Speculation: Quentin Tarantino
7. The Philosophy of Modern Song: Bob Dylan
8. Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions: Steve Martin, Harry Bliss (Illus.)
9. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
10. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Randall Munroe
MASS MARKET
1. Carrie: Stephen King
2. Twisted Tea Christmas: Laura Childs
3. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Scott Lynch
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
5. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
6. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
8. 1984: George Orwell
9. A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. It Starts with Us: Colleen Hoover
2. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
3. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. The Best American Short Stories 2022: Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.)
6. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr
7. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
8. Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens
9. Circe: Madeline Miller
10. The Netanyahus: Joshua Cohen
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