The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Sept. 29 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. Intermezzo: Sally Rooney 2. James: Percival Everett 3. Playground: Richard Powers 4. The Empusium: Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Transl.) 5. Tell Me Everything: Elizabeth Strout 6. All Fours: Miranda July 7. Colored Television: Danzy Senna 8. Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner 9. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore 10. Somewhere Beyond the Sea: TJ Klune HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI: Yuval Noah Harari 2. A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It: Leigh McGowan 3. On Freedom: Timothy Snyder 4. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty: Hillary Rodham Clinton 5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin 6. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success: Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig 7. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue: Sonia Purnell 8. Connie: A Memoir: Connie Chung 9. The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi 10. Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves: Stephen Colbert, Evie McGee Colbert MASS MARKET 1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams 2. Interview with the Vampire: Anne Rice 3. 1984: George Orwell 4. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger 5. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson 6. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss 7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou 8. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut 9. Hamlet: William Shakespeare 10. The Fall of Hyperion: Dan Simmons TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 1. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver 2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin 3. The Bee Sting: Paul Murray 4. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir 5. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig 6. Record of a Night Too Brief: Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Transl.) 7. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros 8. Us Fools: Nora Lange 9. The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde 10. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman Related Articles Books | How Nicholas Sparks drew on the Bible for new novel ‘Counting Miracles’ Books | As wildfires burn California, Obi Kaufmann seeks solutions in ‘State of Fire’ Books | 7 Brian De Palma films are explored in a new book. But ‘Scarface’ isn’t one. Books | This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores Books | There’s something foul in an LA fashion house in Lilliam Rivera’s ‘Tiny Threads’