This week’s bestsellers at Southern California independent bookstores – San Bernardino County Sun

SoCal’s independent bestseller list for the sales week ending Oct. 27 is based on reports from Southern California independent booksellers, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an indie bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER ART

1. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney

2. The wait: Michael Connolly

3. James: Percival Everett

4. Playground: Richard Powers

5. Tell me everything: Elizabeth Strout

6. Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner

7. Forgiveness: Jeff VanderMeer

8. Fours: Miranda Julie

9. Carla’s Choice: A Novel by John Le Carré: Nick Harkaway

10. The God of the Forest: Liz Moore

DOCUMENTATION WITH HARD COVERS

1. War: Bob Woodward

2. The message: Ta-Nehisi Coates

3. Patriot: A Memoir: Alexei Navalny

4. Be ready when luck strikes: Memoir: Ina Garten

5. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell

6. What I ate in a year: (and related thoughts): Stanley Tucci

7. Sonny Boy: A Memoir: Al Pacino

8. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI: Yuval Noah Harari

9. The creative act: way of being: Rick Rubin

10. They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir: Bruce Eric Kaplan

MASS MARKET

1. Mistborn: The Last Empire: Brandon Sanderson

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

3. The Glow: Stephen King

4. The Ascension Well: Brandon Sanderson

5. Foundation: Isaac Asimov

6. The Hero of Ages: Brandon Sanderson

7. Hiroshima: John Hersey

8. Game of Thrones: George RR Martin

9. Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and Other Major Writings of Thomas Paine: Thomas Paine

10. Dune: Frank Herbert

TRADE IN METAL CARDS

1. The Vegetarian: Han Kang

2. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver

3. Northern Forest: Daniel Mason

4. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow: Gabriel Zevin

5. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yaros

6. The Best American Short Stories of 2024: Lauren Groff, Heidi Pittler (eds.)

7. Human actions: Han Kang

8. Circe: Madeline Miller

9. The Overstory: Richard Powers

10. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reed