The SoCal Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SCIBA, for the 
sales week ended Sunday, December 9, 2018. 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. There There
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525520375
2. Fire & Blood
George R.R. Martin, Doug Wheatley (Illus.), Bantam, $35, 9781524796280
3. Past Tense
Lee Child, Delacorte Press, $28.99, 9780399593512
4. Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99, 9780062684561
5. Dark Sacred Night
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $29, 9780316484800
6. The Friend
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead, $25, 9780735219441
7. Circe
Madeline Miller, Little Brown, $27, 9780316556347
8. Kingdom of the Blind
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250066206
9. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $27.95, 9780393635522
10. Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30, 9780525520047
11. The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai, Viking, $27, 9780735223523
12. Washington Black
Esi Edugyan, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525521426
13. My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite, Doubleday, $22.95, 9780385544238
14. The Witch Elm
Tana French, Viking, $28, 9780735224629
15. The Feral Detective
Jonathan Lethem, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062859068
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Becoming
Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138
2. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22, 9781984854278
3. Educated
Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504
4. The Library Book
Susan Orlean, S&S, $28, 9781476740188
5. Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking, Bantam, $25, 9781984819192
6. Almost Everything
Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20, 9780525537441
7. Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781607749165
8. The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis, Norton, $26.95, 9781324002642
9. Cook Like a Pro
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780804187046
10. Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
David Kipen (Ed.), Modern Library, $26, 9780812993981
11. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, $35, 9781476753836
12. Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $30, 9781476795928
13. How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $28, 9781594204227
14. Whose Boat Is This Boat?
The Staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, S&S, $14.99, 9781982121082
15. How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illus.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $20, 9780544938328
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Milkman
Anna Burns, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450000
2. Less
Andrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316316132
3. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064
4. Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455563920
5. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16, 9780735220690
6. Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday, S&S, $16, 9781501166785
7. Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan, Anchor, $16, 9780525563761
8. The Perfect Nanny
Leila Slimani, Penguin, $16, 9780143132172
9. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
10. The Best American Short Stories 2018
Roxane Gay, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9780544582941
11. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $17, 9781501173219
12. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155
13. Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen, Random House, $17, 9780525509875
14. Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Mariner, $14.99, 9781328911247
15. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Lisa See, Scribner, $16.99, 9781501154836
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062316110
2. Devotion (Why I Write)
Patti Smith, Yale University Press, $9.95, 9780300240221
3. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254
4. 111 Places in Los Angeles That You Must Not Miss
Laurel Moglen, Julia Posey, Emons Publishers, $19.9, 9783954518845
5. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2019
Sarah Janssen (Ed.), World Almanac, $14.99, 9781600572227
6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel Van Der Kolk, Penguin, $18, 9780143127741
7. The Origins of Creativity
Edward O. Wilson, Liveright Publishing Corporation, $16.95, 9781631494857
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307742483
9. Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, Spiegel & Grau, $16, 9780812984965
10. How to Fight
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason Deantonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781941529867
11. Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060899226
12. The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
13. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2019
Old Farmer's Almanac, $7.95, 9781571987730
14. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
John McPhee, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15, 9780374537975
15. Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062464347
 
MASS MARKET
1. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741
2. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
3. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
4. Tom Clancy Power and Empire
Marc Cameron, Berkley, $9.99, 9780735215917
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
Merriam-Webster, $8.50, 9780877795964
6. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983
7. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
8. Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, Tor, $7.99, 9780812550702
9. Origin
Dan Brown, Anchor, $9.99, 9780525563709
10. The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553588941
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Snowy Nap
Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780399170737
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780544580145
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss, Random House, $16.99, 9780394800790
5. Little Blue Truck's Christmas
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780544320413
6. The Wonky Donkey
Craig Smith, Katz Cowley (Illus.), Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545261241
7. Baby Feminists
Libby Babbott-Klein, Jessica Walker (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780451480101
8. The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373
9. Giraffe Problems
Jory John, Lane Smith (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9781524772031
10. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost, Susan Jeffers (Illus.), Dutton, $16.99, 9780525467342
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $18.99, 9781250170972
2. The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350
3. Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $26, 9781984830159
4. Dear Evan Hansen
Val Emmich, et al., Poppy, $18.99, 9780316420235
5. The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780060530945
6. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill, Algonquin Young Readers, $17.95, 9781616205676
7. Squirm
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780385752978
8. Dry
Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781481481960
9. An Anthology of Intriguing Animals
DK Children, $19.99, 9781465477026
10. Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, HarperCollins, $8.99, 9780064400558
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
3. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
4. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin
5. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion
6. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic 
7. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
8. Who Was/Is...?
Ann Waldron, et al., Penguin Workshop
9. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Candlewick
10. Junie B. Jones
Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus (Illus.), Random House