BESTSELLERS

The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Oct. 1 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. Tom Lake: Ann Patchett

2. The Vaster Wilds: Lauren Groff

3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride

4. The Iliad: Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

5. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver

6. The Fraud: Zadie Smith

7. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus

8. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin

9. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros

10. The Last Devil to Die: Richard Osman

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Elon Musk: Walter Isaacson

2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann

3. Enough: Cassidy Hutchinson

4. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America: Heather Cox Richardson

5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin

6. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier: Arthur C. Brooks, Oprah Winfrey

7. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune: Anderson Cooper

8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World: Naomi Klein

9. America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse: Thomas P.M. Barnett

10. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50Moments:

Joe Posnanski

MASS MARKET

1. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut

2. Dune: Frank Herbert

3. Animal Farm: George Orwell

4. American Gods: Neil Gaiman

5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Neil Gaiman

6. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde

7. Lord of the Flies: William Golding

8. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie

9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

10. 1984: George Orwell

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Trust: Hernan Diaz

2. The Secret History: Donna Tartt

3. Big Swiss: Jen Beagin

4. The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners: edited by Lauren Groff and Jenny Minton Quigley

5. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman 6. Babel: R.F. Kuang

7. The Idiot: Elif Batuman

8. Assistant to the Villain: Hannah Nicole Maehrer

9. The Odyssey: Homer

10. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig

COURTESY OF SIMON & SCHUSTER “Enough,” a new memoir by former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson, is among the top-selling nonfiction releases at Southern California's independent bookstores.