Bestsellers

The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Dec. 18 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. Lessons in Chemistry:

Bonnie Garmus 2. Demon Copperhead:

Barbara Kingsolver 3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow:

Gabrielle Zevin 4. The Passenger: Cormac McCarthy 5. A World of Curiosities:

Louise Penny 6. Desert Star: Michael

Connelly 7. Stella Maris: Cormac

McCarthy

8. Horse: Geraldine Brooks

9. The Candy House: Jennifer Egan 10. Trust: Hernan Diaz

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times: Michelle Obama

2. I'm Glad My Mom Died:

Jennette McCurdy 3. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook:

Ina Garten 4. A Book of Days: Patti

Smith 5. Cinema Speculation:

Quentin Tarantino

6. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us: Ed Yong

7. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions:

Randall Munroe

8. The Philosophy of Modern Song: Bob Dylan

9. Happy-Go-Lucky:

David Sedaris 10. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story: Bono

MASS MARKET

1. 1984: George Orwell

2. Carrie: Stephen King

3. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson 4. Jurassic Park: Michael

Crichton 5. A Game of Thrones:

George R.R. Martin

6. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Scott Lynch

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

8. The Shining: Stephen

King 9. A Clash of Kings:

George R.R. Martin 10. The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor

Jenkins Reid 2. It Starts with Us: Colleen Hoover 3. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover

4. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman

5. Cloud Cuckoo Land:

Anthony Doerr 6. The Song of Achilles:

Madeline Miller 7. Circe: Madeline Miller

8. Klara and the Sun:

Kazuo Ishiguro 9. The Seven Moons of

Maali Almeida: Shehan

Karunatilaka 10. Project Hail Mary:

Andy Weir

COURTESY OF CLARKSON POTTER “Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook,” by Ina Garten, is among the top-selling hardcover nonfiction releases at Southern California's independent bookstores.