The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Sept. 26 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. Beautiful World, Where Are You: Sally Rooney
2. Bewilderment: Richard Powers
3. Harlem Shuffle: Colson Whitehead
4. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
5. Matrix: Lauren Groff
6. Apples Never Fall: Liane Moriarty
7. The Book of Form and Emptiness: Ruth Ozeki
8. Under the Whispering Door: TJ Klune
9. Malibu Rising: Taylor Jenkins Reid
10. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Peril: Bob Woodward, Robert Costa
2. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark: Cassandra Peterson
3. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
5. Untamed: Glennon Doyle
6. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village: Maureen Johnson, Jay Cooper
7. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto: Michaela Coel
8. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law: Mary Roach
9. Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey
10. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. Foundation: Isaac Asimov
3. Hyperion: Dan Simmons
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
5. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
6. Mythology: Edith Hamilton
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Quentin Tarantino
9. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
10. In the Woods: Tana French
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
3. Circe: Madeline Miller
4. Dune: Frank Herbert
5. Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
6. Normal People: Sally Rooney
7. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
8. The Silent Patient: Alex Michaelides
9. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
10. People We Meet on Vacation: Emily Henry
