{"id":214329,"date":"2025-10-15T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214329\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:06:07","slug":"this-weeks-bestsellers-at-southern-californias-independent-bookstores-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214329\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s bestsellers at Southern California\u2019s independent bookstores \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended Oct. 12 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and\u00a0IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HARDCOVER FICTION<\/p>\n

1. Shadow Ticket:\u00a0Thomas Pynchon<\/p>\n

2. The Impossible Fortune:\u00a0Richard Osman<\/p>\n

3. What We Can Know:\u00a0Ian McEwan<\/p>\n

4. Alchemised:\u00a0SenLinYu<\/p>\n

5. Heart the Lover:\u00a0Lily King<\/p>\n

6. Katabasis:\u00a0R. F. Kuang<\/p>\n

7. Twice:\u00a0Mitch Albom<\/p>\n

8. The Secret of Secrets:\u00a0Dan Brown<\/p>\n

9. My Friends:\u00a0Fredrik Backman<\/p>\n

10. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny:\u00a0Kiran Desai<\/p>\n

HARDCOVER NONFICTION<\/p>\n

1. 107 Days:\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/p>\n

2. Perseverance Principles: How to Unlock Confidence, Consistency, and Wealth Under Pressure:\u00a0J.J. Mazzo<\/p>\n

3. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can\u2019t Stop Talking About:\u00a0Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins<\/p>\n

4. All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation:\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n

5. Raising Hare: A Memoir:\u00a0Chloe Dalton<\/p>\n

6. Poems & Prayers:\u00a0Matthew McConaughey<\/p>\n

7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being:\u00a0Rick Rubin<\/p>\n

8. Last Rites:\u00a0Ozzy Osbourne<\/p>\n

9. Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love:\u00a0Samin Nosrat<\/p>\n

10. The Devil Emails at Midnight: What Good Leaders Can Learn from Bad Bosses:\u00a0Mita Mallick<\/p>\n

MASS MARKET<\/p>\n

1. 1984:\u00a0George Orwell<\/p>\n

2. Animal Farm:\u00a0George Orwell<\/p>\n

3. The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy:\u00a0Douglas Adams<\/p>\n

4. Mistborn: The Final Empire:\u00a0Brandon Sanderson<\/p>\n

5. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One:\u00a0J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n

6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X:\u00a0Malcom X<\/p>\n

7. Lord of the Flies:\u00a0William Golding<\/p>\n

8. Foundation:\u00a0Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n

9. And Then There Were None:\u00a0Agatha Christie<\/p>\n

10. Slaughterhouse-Five:\u00a0Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION<\/p>\n

1. Mate:\u00a0Ali Hazelwood<\/p>\n

2. Martyr!:\u00a0Kaveh Akbar<\/p>\n

3. I Who Have Never Known Men:\u00a0Jacqueline Harpman<\/p>\n

4. Tell Me Everything:\u00a0Elizabeth Strout<\/p>\n

5. The Frozen River:\u00a0Ariel Lawhon<\/p>\n

6. Hamnet:\u00a0Maggie O\u2019Farrell<\/p>\n

7. Fahrenheit 451:\u00a0Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n

8. Project Hail Mary:\u00a0Andy Weir<\/p>\n

9. Remarkably Bright Creatures:\u00a0Shelby Van Pelt<\/p>\n

10. The Midnight Library:\u00a0Matt Haig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended Oct. 12 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134,12943],"class_list":["post-214329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}