The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Jan. 2 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. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr

2. Call Us What We Carry: Poems: Amanda Gorman

3. Beautiful World, Where Are You: Sally Rooney

4. The Lincoln Highway: Amor Towles

5. The Sentence: Louise Erdrich

6. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro

7. Crossroads: Jonathan Franzen

8. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig

9. Matrix: Lauren Groff

10. Bewilderment: Richard Powers

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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

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

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

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

5. These Precious Days: Essays: Ann Patchett

6. All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business: Mel Brooks

7. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity: David Graeber, David Wengrow

8. Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World: Eve Rodsky

9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion

10. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear

MASS MARKET

1. Dune: Frank Herbert

2. The Eye of the World: Robert Jordan

3. The Last Wish: Andrzej Sapkowski

4. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert

5. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

6. Foundation: Isaac Asimov

7. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss

8. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Scott Lynch

9. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert

10. Old Man’s War: John Scalzi

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller

2. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover

3. People We Meet on Vacation: Emily Henry

4. Circe: Madeline Miller

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

6. My Year of Rest and Relaxation: Ottessa Moshfegh

7. Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

8. Dune: Frank Herbert

9. Daisy Jones & The Six: Taylor Jenkins Reid

10. The Anomaly: Hervé Le Tellier

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