Top Selling Books at Southern California Independent Bookstores for Week Ending October 12, 2026

**HARDCOVER FICTION**

1. *American Hagwon* — Min Jin Lee (Cardinal, $36)

2. *Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection)* — Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books, $24.99)

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

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

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

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

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

8. *Partita* — Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, $32)

9. *Whistler* — Ann Patchett (Harper, $30)

10. *The French Illusion (The French Illusion Series)* — John Grisham (Doubleday, $35)

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

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

13. *Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)* — Caro Claire Burke (Knopf, $30)

14. *Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel (The Talisman Trilogy #3)* — Stephen King and Peter Straub (Scribner, $35)

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

**HARDCOVER NONFICTION**

1. *Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State* — Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99)

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

3. *The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic* — Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company, $34)

4. *Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up* — David Byrne (Penguin Press, $36)

5. *One Helluva Ride* — Michael Douglas (Grand Central Publishing, $35)

6. *The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy* — Gil Durán (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30)

7. *Fictional Selves: A Memoir* — Kyle MacLachlan (Crown, $34)

8. *Famesick: A Memoir* — Lena Dunham (Random House, $32)

9. *The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World* — Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, $38)

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

11. *The Battle for Your Soul: 31 Biblical Secrets of Spiritual Warfare* — David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson, $29.99)

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

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

14. *Devil on My Shoulder: A Memoir* — Alice Cooper (Da Capo, $32.50)

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

**PAPERBACK FICTION**

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

2. *Fruit Fly* — Josh Silver (Crooked Lane Books, $19.99)

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

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

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

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

7. *May We Feed the King* — Rebecca Perry (Transit Books, $18.95)

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

9. *Klara and the Sun* — Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage, $19)

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

11. *Angel Down* — Daniel Kraus (Atria Books, $18)

12. *Stoner* — John Williams (NYRB Classics, $17.95)

13. *The Alchemist* — Paulo Coelho (HarperOne, $17.99)

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

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

**PAPERBACK NONFICTION**

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

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

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

4. *The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition* — Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee, $24)

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

6. *Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays* — Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18)

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

8. *We’ve Been Here the Whole Time!: A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America* — Joey Clift; illustrated by Julie Fiveash (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $22.99)

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

10. *Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)* — Eve Babitz (New York Review Books, $18.95)

11. *Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles* — Rosecrans Baldwin (Picador, $19)

12. *Raising Hare: A Memoir* — Chloe Dalton (Vintage, $21)

13. *The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma* — Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin Books, $19)

14. *Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life* — William Finnegan (Penguin, $20)

15. *Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype* — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD (Ballantine, $24)