{"id":59717,"date":"2025-11-19T04:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59717\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:07:10","slug":"this-weeks-bestsellers-at-southern-californias-independent-bookstores-daily-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59717\/","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 Nov. 16 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. The Strength of the Few:\u00a0James Islington<\/p>\n

2. The Correspondent:\u00a0Virginia Evans<\/p>\n

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

4. The Proving Ground:\u00a0Michael Connelly<\/p>\n

5. Brigands & Breadknives:\u00a0Travis Baldree<\/p>\n

6. The Black Wolf:\u00a0Louise Penny<\/p>\n

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

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

9. Gone Before Goodbye:\u00a0Harlan Coben, Reese Witherspoon<\/p>\n

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

HARDCOVER NONFICTION<\/p>\n

1. Bread of Angels: A Memoir:\u00a0Patti Smith<\/p>\n

2. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism:\u00a0Stewart Reynolds<\/p>\n

3. The Uncool: A Memoir:\u00a0Cameron Crowe<\/p>\n

4. Nobody\u2019s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice:\u00a0Virginia Roberts Giuffre<\/p>\n

5. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook:\u00a0Alison Roman<\/p>\n

6. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History \u2014 and How It Shattered a Nation:\u00a0Andrew Ross Sorkin<\/p>\n

7. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm:\u00a0Charlie Mackesy<\/p>\n

8. The Look:\u00a0Michelle Obama<\/p>\n

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

10. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts:\u00a0Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n

MASS MARKET<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

5. The Catcher in the Rye:\u00a0J.D. Salinger<\/p>\n

6. Oathbringer:\u00a0Brandon Sanderson<\/p>\n

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

8. Jurassic Park:\u00a0Michael Crichton<\/p>\n

9. The Count of Monte Cristo:\u00a0Alexandre Dumas<\/p>\n

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

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION<\/p>\n

1. The City and Its Uncertain Walls:\u00a0Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n

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

3. The God of the Woods:\u00a0Liz Moore<\/p>\n

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

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

6. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text:\u00a0Mary Shelley<\/p>\n

7. Intermezzo:\u00a0Sally Rooney<\/p>\n

8. How About Now: Poems:\u00a0Kate Baer<\/p>\n

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

10. The Frozen River:\u00a0Ariel Lawhon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended Nov. 16 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[647,7,9,8,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-59717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}