Southern California Independent Bookstores Report Current Bestsellers

**HARDCOVER FICTION**

1. Hollywood, Ending — John Green (Dutton Books, $32)

2. Exit Party — Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf, $32)

3. The Disappearers — Marlon James (Riverhead Books, $32)

4. Whistler — Ann Patchett (Harper, $30)

5. The Things We Never Say — Elizabeth Strout (Random House, $29)

6. Dead Beat (Ninth House Series #3) — Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books, $29.99)

7. The Pirate Queen — Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday, $32)

8. John of John — Douglas Stuart (Grove Press, $28)

9. Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition) — R. F. Kuang (William Morrow, $32)

10. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel: The New Miss Marple Mystery — Lucy Foley and Agatha Christie (William Morrow, $30)

11. Switzy — Emma Cline (Random House, $32)

12. The Calamity Club — Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau, $35)

13. We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery — Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books, $31)

14. The Witches of Cambridge — Alice Hoffman (Scribner, $29)

15. Big Little Truths — Liane Moriarty (Crown, $34)

**HARDCOVER NONFICTION**

1. An Unexpected Life: A Memoir — Gloria Steinem (Random House, $30)

2. Swan Song: Diana, my sister — Charles Spencer (Penguin Press, $35)

3. Roll the Calls: A Memoir — Ari Emanuel (Knopf, $35)

4. End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World — Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32)

5. Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body — Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (S&S/Simon Element, $35)

6. Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era — Jacob Weisberg (Penguin Press, $31)

7. The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries — Richard Socher (PublicAffairs, $30)

8. The Land and Its People: Essays — David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company, $30)

9. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage — Belle Burden (The Dial Press, $30)

10. Never Say Die: A Memoir — Ke Huy Quan (Grand Central Publishing, $32.50)

11. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism — Stewart Reynolds (Grand Central Publishing, $13)

12. The Catalyst CEO: Why CEOs Can’t Lead Transformation Alone—And What the Best Do Instead — Constantine G. Alexandrakis (Wiley, $32)

13. The Perilous Fight — Colin Kaepernick (Legacy Lit, $32.50)

14. The Little Frog’s Guide to Hope — Maybell Eequay (Summersdale, $11.99)

15. The Best Dog in the World: Essays — Alice Hoffman, editor (Scribner, $22)

**PAPERBACK FICTION**

1. Theo of Golden — Allen Levi (Atria Books, $20)

2. Dungeon Crawler Carl — Matt Dinniman (Ace, $20)

3. The Wedding People — Alison Espach (Holt Paperbacks, $18.99)

4. Wild Dark Shore — Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron Books, $18.99)

5. Circe — Madeline Miller (Back Bay, $19.99)

6. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir (Ballantine Books, $22)

7. East of Eden — John Steinbeck (Penguin, $25)

8. Piranesi — Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99)

9. Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar (Vintage, $20)

10. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press, $20)

11. I Who Have Never Known Men — Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books, $16.95)

12. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2) — Matt Dinniman (Ace, $21)

13. The Women — Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Griffin, $21)

14. The Midnight Library — Matt Haig (Penguin, $18)

15. Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster, $24.99)

**PAPERBACK NONFICTION**

1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature — Emily Wilson (Liveright, $19.99)

2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, $18.99)

3. Bread of Angels: A Memoir — Patti Smith (Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20)

4. Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy (Scribner, $20)

5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession — Michael Finkel (Vintage, $18)

6. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It — Cory Doctorow (Picador, $20)

7. All About Love: New Visions — bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99)

8. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: Updated Sixth Edition — David Gebhard, Robert Winter, and Robert Inman (Angel City Press, $45)

9. I’m Glad My Mom Died — Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster, $19.99)

10. Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition — Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, $24)

11. Just Kids — Patti Smith (Ecco, $18.99)

12. The Big Day: Saying 'I Do' Only to Discover I Didn’t – Another Mostly True Memoir — Lisa Cheek (She Writes Press, $18.99)

13. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir — Dolly Alderton (Harper Perennial, $18.99)

14. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — David Grann (Vintage, $21)

15. The White Album: Essays — Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18)

**MASS MARKET PAPERBACK**

1. Animal Farm — George Orwell (Signet, $12)

2. Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut (Dell, $10.99)

3. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas (Bantam, $7.95)

4. The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson (Tor, $12.99)

5. Interview with the Vampire — Anne Rice (Ballantine, $12.99)

6. Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton (Ballantine, $12.99)

7. A Sand County Almanac — Aldo Leopold (Ballantine, $10.99)

8. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie (Morrow, $10.99)

9. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part One — J.R.R. Tolkien (Del Rey, $8.99)

10. And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie (Morrow, $10.99)

11. Mistborn: The Final Empire — Brandon Sanderson (Tor, $10.99)

12. The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War — Barbara Stoler Miller (Bantam Classics, $7.95)

13. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories — Oscar Wilde (Signet, $6.95)

14. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams (Del Rey, $9.99)

15. 1984 — George Orwell (Signet, $12)

**EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE**

1. Sisters: A Graphic Novel — Raina Telgemeier (Graphix, $12.99)

2. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel — Cassandra Calin (Graphix, $12.99)

3. Squalo & Mage vs. the Rage of the Bakunawa: A Graphic Novel — Kara Bodegón-Hikino (HarperAlley, $15.99)

4. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel — Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud (Graphix, $14.99)

5. Charlotte’s Web — E.B. White (HarperCollins, $10.99)

6. Mixed Feelings: A Graphic Novel — Sara Amini; illustrated by Shadia Amin (Graphix, $14.99)

7. A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L’Engle (Square Fish, $8.99)

8. Odder: The Novel — Katherine Applegate; illustrated by Charles Santoso (Square Fish, $8.99)

9. The One and Only Bob — Katherine Applegate; illustrated by Patricia Castelao (Storytide, $10.99)

10. A Wolf Called Fire — Rosanne Parry; illustrated by Mónica Armiño (Greenwillow Books, $9.99)

11. Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven — Alina Chau (First Second, $22.99)

12. Hatchet — Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99)

13. A Fishboy Named…Sashimi — Dan Santat (Roaring Brook Press, $8.99)

14. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest (Newbery Honor Award Winner) — Aubrey Hartman (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $8.99)

15. Frog and Toad Are Friends — Arnold Lobel (Harper, $5.99)

**YOUNG ADULT**

1. Better Than the Movies — Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99)

2. Our Strange Duet — Erin A. Craig (Delacorte Press, $24.99)

3. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel — Gareth Hinds (Candlewick, $19.99)

4. Looking for Alaska — John Green (Penguin Books, $12.99)

5. Shadow Reaper — Lynette Noni (Knopf Books for Young Readers, $21.99)

6. The Ivies — Alexa Donne (Ember, $12.99)

7. The Glass Girl — Kathleen Glasgow (Delacorte Press, $14.99)

8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition) — Stephen Chbosky (Simon Pulse, $15.99)

9. Island of the Blue Dolphins: A Newbery Award Winner — Scott O'Dell; illustrated by Ted Lewin (HMH Books for Young Readers, $9.99)

10. Family of Liars (Deluxe Edition) — E. Lockhart (Delacorte Press, $14.99)

11. We’re All Going to Die Tonight! — Veronica Bane (Delacorte Press, $19.99)

12. The Gods Will Sing Our Song — Autumn Krause (Delacorte Press, $20.99)

13. Five Survive — Holly Jackson (Ember, $14.99)

14. The Outsiders — S. E. Hinton (Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99)

15. But I Hate Him — Page Powars (Roaring Brook Press, $20.99)

**CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED**

1. Gruffalo Granny — Julia Donaldson; illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Dial Books, $19.99)

2. Room on the Broom — Julia Donaldson; illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Dial Books, $9.99)

3. Wonderful Halloween — Emily Winfield Martin (Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99)

4. The Bats on the Bus — Alison Jackson; illustrated by Scott Magoon (Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99)

5. The Skeleton and the Cat — Brandon James Scott (HarperCollins, $19.99)

6. Midnight Manor: A Backwards Bedtime Book — Sid Sharp (Annick Press, $19.99)

7. Little Blue Truck’s Halloween — Alice Schertle; illustrated by Jill McElmurry (Clarion Books, $13.99)

8. Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Pumpkin (Yum, Yum, Yum! #Volume 5) — Sarah Finan (Post Wave, $8.99)

9. Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween — A.J. Locascio; illustrated by Laurie Conley (Top Shelf Productions, $14.99)

10. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book) — Golden Books ($6.99)

11. Good Night, Gorilla — Peggy Rathmann (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99)

12. Bluey’s Heelerween — Jessica Magro (Penguin Young Readers Licenses, $9.99)

13. Millie Fleur’s Pumpkin Problem — Christy Mandin (Orchard Books, $14.99)

14. Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains with a Boy — Mac Barnett; illustrated by X. Fang (Tundra Books, $19.99)

15. Halloween, Baby! — Karen Katz; illustrated by Karen Katz (Little Simon, $9.99)

**CHILDREN’S INTEREST**

1. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel — Cassandra Calin (Graphix, $12.99)

2. Sisters: A Graphic Novel — Raina Telgemeier (Graphix, $12.99)

3. Squalo & Mage vs. the Rage of the Bakunawa: A Graphic Novel — Kara Bodegón-Hikino (HarperAlley, $15.99)

4. Better Than the Movies — Lynn Painter (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $12.99)

5. Odder: The Novel — Katherine Applegate; illustrated by Charles Santoso (Square Fish, $8.99)

6. Charlotte’s Web — E.B. White (HarperCollins, $10.99)

7. A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L’Engle (Square Fish, $8.99)

8. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel — Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud (Graphix, $14.99)

9. Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven — Alina Chau (First Second, $22.99)

10. A Wolf Called Fire — Rosanne Parry; illustrated by Mónica Armiño (Greenwillow Books, $9.99)

11. The One and Only Bob — Katherine Applegate; illustrated by Patricia Castelao (Storytide, $10.99)

12. Hatchet — Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99)

13. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel — Gareth Hinds (Candlewick, $19.99)

14. Mixed Feelings: A Graphic Novel — Sara Amini; illustrated by Shadia Amin (Graphix, $14.99)

15. What Would You Rather Be? A King Penguin or a King Cobra? — Jerry Pallotta (Scholastic Inc., $5.99)