BESTSELLERS
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Jan. 7 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 Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James
McBride
2. Tom Lake: Ann Patchett
3. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
4. Iron Flame: Rebecca
Yarros
5. North Woods: Daniel
Mason
6. Fourth Wing: Rebecca
Yarros 7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow:
Gabrielle Zevin
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
9. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver
10. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Toshikazu
Kawaguchi
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A
Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and
Murder: David Grann
3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits &
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” by James McBride, is the top-selling hardcover fiction release at Southern California's independent bookstores. Break Bad Ones: James
Clear 4. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning:
Liz Cheney 5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession:
Michael Finkel
6. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism: Rachel Maddow
7. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: David Brooks
8. My Name Is Barbra: Barbra Streisand
9. Elon Musk: Walter
Isaacson
10. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story: Sam Wasson
MASS MARKET
1. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
2. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
3. Elvis and Me: Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas
Adams
5. Storm Front: Jim
Butcher
6. Rich Dad Poor Dad: Robert T. Kiyosaki
7. The Name of the Wind:
Patrick Rothfuss
8. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman
9. Animal Farm: George
Orwell
10. Slaughterhouse-Five:
Kurt Vonnegut
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor
Jenkins Reid
2. Trust: Hernan Diaz
3. All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
4. The Midnight Library:
Matt Haig
5. A Court of Mist and Fury: Sarah J. Maas
6. The Song of Achilles:
Madeline Miller
7. A Little Life: Hanya
Yanagihara
8. Bookshops & Bonedust: Travis Baldree
9. The House in the Pines: Ana Reyes
10. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman