This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 28 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 Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai
2. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
3. Heart the Lover: Lily King
4. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan
5. Flesh: David Szalay
6. The Secret of Secrets: Dan Brown
7. Katabasis: R. F. Kuang
8. A Guardian and a Thief: Megha Majumdar
9. Audition: Katie Kitamura
10. Shadow Ticket: Thomas Pynchon
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst
2. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin
3. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith
4. The Uncool: A Memoir: Cameron Crowe
5. The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
7. Mother Mary Comes to Me: Arundhati Roy
8. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman
9. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm: Charlie Mackesy
10. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
2. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
3. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore
4. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
6. Train Dreams: Denis Johnson
7. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
8. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon
9. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
10. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
2. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
3. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants: Robin Wall Kimmerer
6. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue: Sonia Purnell
7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
8. Just Kids: Patti Smith
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion
10. Didion and Babitz: Lili Anolik