The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Oct. 27 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. The Waiting: Michael Connelly 3. James: Percival Everett 4. Playground: Richard Powers 5. Tell Me Everything: Elizabeth Strout 6. Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner 7. Absolution: Jeff VanderMeer 8. All Fours: Miranda July 9. Karla’s Choice: A John le Carré Novel: Nick Harkaway 10. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. War: Bob Woodward 2. The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates 3. Patriot: A Memoir: Alexei Navalny 4. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir: Ina Garten 5. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Malcolm Gladwell 6. What I Ate in One 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: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin 10. They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir: Bruce Eric Kaplan MASS MARKET 1. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson 2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams 3. The Shining: Stephen King 4. The Well of Ascension: Brandon Sanderson 5. Foundation: Isaac Asimov 6. The Hero of Ages: Brandon Sanderson 7. Hiroshima: John Hersey 8. A Game of Thrones: George R. R. Martin 9. Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine: Thomas Paine 10. Dune: Frank Herbert TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 1. The Vegetarian: Han Kang 2. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver 3. North Woods: Daniel Mason 4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin 5. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros 6. The Best American Short Stories 2024: Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.) 7. Human Acts: Han Kang 8. Circe: Madeline Miller 9. The Overstory: Richard Powers 10. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid Related Articles Books | How a night of mate swapping leads an LA woman on a new path in ‘Olive Days’ Books | 10 new novels, romances and nonfiction books inspired by Shakespeare Books | A rediscovered WWII escape tunnel exposed Nazi atrocities. A new book tells the story Books | Why Michael Connelly says it was time to take on the Black Dahlia case Books | This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores