The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Dec. 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. 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. The Sentence: Louise Erdrich

6. Beautiful World, Where Are You: Sally Rooney

7. The Stranger in the Lifeboat: Mitch Albom

8. Our Country Friends: Gary Shteyngart

9. Matrix: Lauren Groff

10. The Judge’s List: John Grisham

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music: Dave Grohl

2. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine

3. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience: Brené Brown

4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner

5. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020): David Sedaris

6. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor

7. Guinness World Records 2022: Guinness World Records

8. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity: David Graeber

9. These Precious Days: Essays: Ann Patchett

10. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race: Walter Isaacson

MASS MARKET

1. Dune: Frank Herbert

2. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

3. Murder at the Mistletoe Ball: J.D. Griffo

4. The Last Wish: Andrzej Sapkowski

5. The Eye of the World: Robert Jordan

6. The Ruin of Kings: Jenn Lyons

7. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Scott Lynch

8. Red Seas Under Red Skies: Scott Lynch

9. Words of Radiance: Brandon Sanderson

10. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Anomaly: Hervé Le Tellier

2. Circe: Madeline Miller

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

4. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman

5. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover

6. A Gentleman in Moscow: Amor Towles

7. All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr

8. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

9. The Dutch House: Ann Patchett

10. Dune: Frank Herbert

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