BESTSELLERS
The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Oct. 15 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 1. Tom Lake: FICTION
Ann Patchett
2. Grocery The Heaven Store: & Earth
James
McBride
3. The Fraud: Zadie Smith
4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow:
Gabrielle Zevin 5. Death Valley: Melissa
Broder 6. The Mysteries: Bill Watterson, illustrated by John Kascht 7. Roman Stories:
Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Todd Portnowitz 8. Demon Copperhead:
Barbara Kingsolver 9. Lessons in Chemistry:
Bonnie Garmus 10. The Last Devil to Die:
Richard Osman
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life: Arnold Schwarzenegger
2. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon: Michael Lewis
3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick
Rubin
“Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life,” by former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is the topselling hardcover nonfiction release at Southern California's independent bookstores.
4. Elon Musk: Walter
Isaacson
5. Making It So: A Memoir: Patrick Stewart
6. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World:
Naomi Klein
7. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir: Werner Herzog
8. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America: Heather Cox
Richardson 9. Enough: Cassidy
Hutchinson 10. Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go — Our Human Story. So Far: Oliver Jeffers
MASS MARKET
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
3. Interview With the Vampire: Anne Rice
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Douglas Adams 5. The Way of Kings:
Brandon Sanderson 6. Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll: Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon
7. Storm Front: Jim
Butcher
8. American Gods: Neil
Gaiman
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Arthur C. Clarke
10. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Trust: Hernan Diaz
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor
Jenkins Reid 3. The Way Forward:
Yung Pueblo 4. The Midnight Library:
Matt Haig
5. The Idiot: Elif Batuman 6. Big Swiss: Jen Beagin 7. Babel: R.F. Kuang
8. Klara and the Sun:
Kazuo Ishiguro 9. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman