Bestsellers
The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Sept. 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. The Madness of Crowds: Louise Penny
2. A Slow Fire Burning:
Paula Hawkins 3. Klara and the Sun:
Kazuo Ishiguro
4. The Last Thing He Told Me: Laura Dave
5. The Midnight Library:
Matt Haig 6. The Paper Palace:
Miranda Cowley Heller 7. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: Honorée
Fanonne Jeffers 8. My Heart Is a Chainsaw: Stephen Graham Jones 9. Malibu Rising: Taylor
Jenkins Reid 10. The Guide: Peter Heller HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War: Craig Whitlock 2. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution: Mike Duncan 3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner 4. The Reckoning: Our
“The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War” by Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock is the top-selling nonfiction release at Southern California’s independent bookstores. Nation’s Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal:
Mary L. Trump 5. All In: An Autobiography: Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard, Maryanne Vollers 6. Everything Now: Lessons From the CityState of Los Angeles:
Rosecrans Baldwin 7. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights:
Erwin Chemerinsky 8. The Bomber Mafia:
Malcolm Gladwell 9. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence: Dr.
Anna Lembke 10. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break
James Clear
Bad MASS 1. Dune: Ones: MARKET
Frank Herbert
2. in Hollywood: Once Upon a Quentin Time
Tarantino
3. 4. 1984: Lord of George the Flies: Orwell William Golding 5. The Eye of the World:
Robert Jordan 6. Salem’s Lot: Stephen
King 7. Women Who Run With
the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
8. Foundation: Isaac
Asimov 9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy: Douglas
Adams 10. The Alloy of Law:
Brandon Sanderson TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 1. The Song of Achilles:
Madeline Miller 2. The Seven Husbands
of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor
Jenkins Reid 3. Circe: Madeline Miller 4. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover 5. Mexican Gothic: Silvia
Moreno-Garcia
6. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
7. People We Meet on Vacation: Emily Henry
8. Anxious People:
Fredrik Backman
9. The Bookseller’s Secret: Michelle Gable
10. Dune: Frank Herbert