The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Aug. 31 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. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition): R. F. Kuang

2. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid

3. The Magician of Tiger Castle: Louis Sachar

4. An Inside Job: Daniel Silva

5. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong

6. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans

7. The Possession of Alba Díaz: Isabel Cañas

8. Culpability: Bruce Holsinger

9. The River Is Waiting: Wally Lamb

10. My Friends: Fredrik Backman

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Abundance: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

2. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

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

4. Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America: Robert B. Reich

5. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst

6. Baldwin: A Love Story: Nicholas Boggs

7. It’s Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground: David Litt

8. The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care: Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay

9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green

10. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run: Peter Ames Carlin

MASS MARKET

1. 1984: George Orwell

2. A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin

3. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton

4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

5. The Well of Ascension: Brandon Sanderson

6. Hyperion: Dan Simmons

7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Malcom X

8. The Hero of Ages: Brandon Sanderson

9. Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse

10. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

2. All Fours: Miranda July

3. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

4. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt

5. The Lion Women of Tehran: Marjan Kamali

6. Tell Me Everything: Elizabeth Strout

7. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon

8. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

9. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver

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

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