This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Oct. 29 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 Exchange: John Grisham

2. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus

3. Tom Lake: Ann Patchett

4. Let Us Descend: Jesmyn Ward

5. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver

6. The Secret: Lee Child, Andrew Child

7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride

8. Roman Stories: Jhumpa Lahiri, Todd Portnowitz (Transl.)

9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin

10. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Woman in Me: Britney Spears

2. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: David Brooks

3. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism: Rachel Maddow

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

5. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things: Adam Grant

6. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life: Arnold Schwarzenegger

7. Romney: A Reckoning: McKay Coppins

8. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir: Werner Herzog

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

10. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon: Michael Lewis

MASS MARKET

1. Animal Farm: George Orwell

2. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger

3. American Gods: Neil Gaiman

4. Macbeth: William Shakespeare

5. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie

6. Night Shift: Stephen King

7. Elvis and Me: Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon

8. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert

9. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss

10. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas

2. Trust: Hernan Diaz

3. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology: Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.)

4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid

5. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman

6. A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara

7. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig

8. A Court of Frost and Starlight: Sarah J. Maas

9. Circe: Madeline Miller

10. The Silent Patient: Alex Michaelides