This Week’s Best Sellers at Southern California Independent Bookstores – Press Telegram

The SoCal indie bestseller list for the sales week ending Oct. 23 is based on reports from Southern California Independent Booksellers, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. Visit an independent bookstore near you IndieBound.org.

Hardcover fiction

1. Our Missing Hearts: Celeste Ng

2. Liberation Day: Stories: George Saunders

3. The Biloxi Boys: John Grisham

4. Copperhead Demon: Barbara Kingsolver

5. The last chair lift: John Irving

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

7. Lucy by the sea: Elizabeth Strout

8. Chemistry lessons: Bonnie Harmus

9. Horse: Geraldine Brooks

10. Signal fires: Dani Shapiro

DOCUMENTATION IN HARD TRANSFER

1. The extraordinary life of an ordinary person: memories: Paul Newman

2. I’m glad my mom died: Janet McCurdy

3. Lighter: Let go of the past, connect with the present and expand the future: Jung Pueblo

4. What if? 2: More serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions: Randall Monroe

5. The Confident Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Destruction of America: Maggie Haberman

6. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle: John Meacham

7. Dinners with Ruth: Memories of the Power of Friendship: Nina Totenberg

8. Stay Faithful: Memories: Hua Hsu

9. Crying at H Mart: Memories: Michelle Zauner

10. Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir: Kid Kong Powers

MASS MARKET

1. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

2. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One: JRR Tolkien

3. Kerry: Stephen King

4. 1984: George Orwell

5. Ghost and stolen tears: Cleo Coyle

6. Soul of a killer: Abby Collette

7. Mythology: Edith Hamilton

8. The ocean at the end of the lane: Neil Gaiman

9. Book Thief Byu: Ellen Byron

10. Thanks for Maverick: Rochelle Ahlers

TRADE IN MALTA PAPER LITERATURE

1. Everything starts with us: Colin Hoover

2. Evelyn Hugo’s seven husbands: Taylor Jenkins Reed

3. Land of the Cloud Cuckoo: Anthony Doerr

4. It ends with us: Colin Hoover

5. Daisy Jones and Six: Taylor Jenkins Reed

6. Silent patient: Alex Michaelides

7. Intersection: Jonathan Franzen

8. True: Colin Hoover

9. Circe: Madeline Miller

10. Malibu Rebellion: Taylor Jenkins Reed