The SoCal Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SCIBA, for the 
sales week ended Sunday, September 25, 2016. Based on reporting from the independent 
booksellers of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and 
IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Commonwealth
Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99, 9780062491794
2. The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, $26.95, 9780385542364
3. Razor Girl
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $27.95, 9780385349741
4. The Nix
Nathan Hill, Knopf, $27.95, 9781101946619
5. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Viking, $27, 9780670026197
6. Nutshell
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $24.95, 9780385542074
7. Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer, FSG, $28, 9780374280024
8. Home
Harlan Coben, Dutton, $28, 9780525955108
9. The Girls
Emma Cline, Random House, $27, 9780812998603
10. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $26, 9780345539960
11. The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26, 9781501132933
12. Lady Cop Makes Trouble
Amy Stewart, Houghton Mifflin, $26, 9780544409941
13. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
14. A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250022134
15. Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $26.95, 9781101947135
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. Killing the Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt, $30, 9781627790628
2. Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance, Harper, $27.99, 9780062300546
3. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Gallery, $28, 9781501139888
4. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Bstan-Dzin-Rgya, Desmond Tutu, Avery, $26, 9780399185045
5. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans, Knopf, $24.95, 9781101875322
6. The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books, $24.95, 9781771642484
7. In Such Good Company
Carol Burnett, Crown Archetype, $28, 9781101904657
8. When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, Random House, $25, 9780812988406
9. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Candice Millard, Doubleday, $30, 9780385535731
10. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Rachel Ignotofsky, Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781607749769
11. The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics
Maureen Dowd, Twelve, $30, 9781455539260
12. The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions 
Kidnapped by the Nazis
Elizabeth Letts, Ballantine, $28, 9780345544803
13. The Seasoned Life: Food, Family, Faith, and the Joy of Eating Well
Ayesha Curry, Little Brown, $27, 9780316316330
14. American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385536714
15. Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
Mike Love, James S. Hirsch, Blue Rider, $28, 9780399176418
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16, 9780735212152
2. A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16, 9781476738024
3. The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124944
4. The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Broadway, $16, 9780553418798
5. The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman, Scribner, $17, 9781501106484
6. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
7. The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $18, 9781609451349
8. Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, Broadway, $16, 9780307887443
9. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
10. Girl Waits With Gun
Amy Stewart, Mariner, $14.95, 9780544800830
11. A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin, Picador USA, $16, 9781250094735
12. The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
13. The Perfect Girl
Gilly MacMillan, William Morrow & Company, $15.99, 9780062476760
14. Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff, Riverhead, $16, 9781594634482
15. Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 1
Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062468611
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard, Liveright, $17.95, 9781631492228
2. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
3. Yuge!
G.B. Trudeau, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449481339
4. The Road to Character
David Brooks, Random House, $18, 9780812983418
5. Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France
Craig Carlson, Sourcebooks, $15.99, 9781492632122
6. H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16, 9780802124739
7. Barbarian Days
William Finnegan, Penguin, $17, 9780143109396
8. The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Stacy Schiff, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316200592
9. Man's Search for Meaning:
Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, $14, 9780807014271
10. Unlikely Friendships: Dogs
Jennifer S. Holland, Workman, $13.95, 9780761187288
11. I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One on TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man
Maz Jobrani, S&S, $16, 9781476749990
12. Black Flags
Joby Warrick, Anchor, $16, 9780804168939
13. M Train
Patti Smith, Vintage, $16, 9781101910160
14. The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16, 9781451697728
15. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228
 
MASS MARKET
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $9.99, 9780735212169
2. X
Sue Grafton, Putnam, $9.99, 9781101981870
3. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
4. All Dressed in White
Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke, Pocket, $7.99, 9781501108563
5. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Perigee, $9.99, 9780399501487
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781455538966
7. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062472106
8. House of the Rising Sun
James Lee Burke, Pocket, $9.99, 9781501107139
9. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
10. The Theory of Death
Faye Kellerman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062270221
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Ada Twist, Scientist
Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $17.95, 9781419721373
2. Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Puffin, $6.99, 9780142501122
3. Little Blue Truck's Halloween
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9780544772533
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
5. Duck on a Tractor
David Shannon, Blue Sky Press, $16.99, 9780545619417
6. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $18.99, 9780060254926
7. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Debbie Levy, Elizabeth Baddeley, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781481465595
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
9. This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came from
Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Cornell (Illus.), Workman, $16.95, 9780761180111
10. They All Saw a Cat
Brendan Wenzel, Chronicle, $16.99, 9781452150130
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $9.99, 9780545581608
3. The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton, Puffin, $9.99, 9780140385724
4. Frankenstein
Rick Walton, Nathan Hale (Illus.), Square Fish, $7.99, 9781250079466
5. El Deafo
Cece Bell, Amulet, $10.95, 9781419712173
6. Three Dark Crowns
Kendare Blake, HarperTeen, $17.99, 9780062385437
7. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish, $6.99, 9780312367541
8. Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper, Atheneum, $8.99, 9781416971719
9. The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, Speak, $12.99, 9780142424179
10. The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99, 9781484732748
 
CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES
1. Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, Quirk
2. Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine
3. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
4. The Land of Stories
Chris Colfer, Little Brown
5. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Candlewick
6. Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury
7. Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon, Puffin
8. The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann, Aladdin
9. The Selection
Kiera Cass, HarperTeen
10. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Graphix