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 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 Bad Ones: James Clear

MASS MARKET

1. Dune: Frank Herbert

2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Quentin Tarantino

3. 1984: George Orwell

4. Lord of the Flies: 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

COURTESY OF SIMON & SCHUSTER “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.