The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Dec. 19 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. Call Us What We Carry: Poems: Amanda Gorman
2. The Lincoln Highway: Amor Towles
3. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr
4. The Dark Hours: Michael Connelly
5. Bewilderment: Richard Powers
6. Crossroads: Jonathan Franzen
7. State of Terror: Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton
8. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro
9. The Hill We Climb: Amanda Gorman
10. Matrix: Lauren Groff
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience: Brené Brown
2. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music: Dave Grohl
3. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity: David Graeber, David Wengrow
4. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine
5. These Precious Days: Essays: Ann Patchett
6. Taste: My Life Through Food: Stanley Tucci
7. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
8. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times: Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, Gail Hudson
9. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
10. The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present: Paul McCartney
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. The Eye of the World: Robert Jordan
3. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
4. 1984: George Orwell
5. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
6. Foundation: Isaac Asimov
7. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert
8. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Quentin Tarantino
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
2. Circe: Madeline Miller
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. Dune: Frank Herbert
5. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
6. Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7. The Overstory: Richard Powers
8. The Anomaly: Hervé Le Tellier
9. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
10. Normal People: Sally Rooney