The SoCal Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the 
sales week ended Sunday, September 20, 2020. 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. The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $26, 9781609455910
2. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452
3. The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett, Viking, $36, 9780525954989
4. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239
5. Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, $27.95, 9780525658184
6. The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27, 9780525536291
7. Anxious People
Fredrik Backman, Atria, $28, 9781501160837
8. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $27, 9781635575637
9. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785
10. Troubled Blood
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $29, 9780316498937
11. Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
12. Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar, Little, Brown, $28, 9780316496421
13. Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $26.99, 9781250204028
14. What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead Books, $26, 9780593191415
15. Monogamy
Sue Miller, Harper, $28.99, 9780062969651
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Rage
Bob Woodward, S&S, $30, 9781982131739
2. Disloyal
Michael Cohen, Skyhorse, $32.50, 9781510764699
3. Caste
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251
4. Compromised
Peter Strzok, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780358237068
5. Untamed
Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28, 9781984801258
6. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27, 9780525509288
7. Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28, 9781982141462
8. Melania and Me
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Gallery Books, $28, 9781982151249
9. Think Like a Monk
Jay Shetty, S&S, $27, 9781982134488
10. Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla, Clarkson Potter, $28, 9781524759216
11. The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition
Brené Brown, Random House, $25, 9780593133583
12. The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
Dr. Edith Eva Eger, Scribner, $22.99, 9781982143091
13. Breath
James Nestor, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780735213616
14. Vesper Flights
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $27, 9780802128812
15. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
2. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538732182
3. When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650
4. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316556323
5. The Testaments
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $16.95, 9780525562627
6. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng, Penguin, $17, 9780143135166
7. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780525541349
8. Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Random House, $17, 9780525510895
9. The Overstory
Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95, 9780393356687
10. Kindred
Octavia E. Butler, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807083697
11. Beloved
Toni Morrison, Vintage, $16, 9781400033416
12. Big Sky
Kate Atkinson, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316523080
13. Sabrina & Corina: Stories
Kali Fajardo-Anstine, One World, $17, 9780525511304
14. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
15. Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark Sullivan, Lake Union Publishing, $14.95, 9781503943377
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16, 9780807047415
2. Intimations
Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95, 9780593297612
3. The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18, 9780525560739
4. My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press, $17.95, 9781942094470
5. My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18, 9781501145254
6. So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo, Seal Press, $16.99, 9781580058827
7. Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith, Vintage, $16, 9781984898920
8. Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi, Bold Type Books, $19.99, 9781568585987
9. Discovering Griffith Park: A Local's Guide
Casey Schreiner, Mountaineers Books, $18.95, 9781680512663
10. Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18, 9781571313560
11. Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99, 9780062316110
12. All About Love
bell hooks, Morrow, $15.99, 9780060959470
13. The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas
Obi Kaufmann, Heyday Books, $55, 9781597144797
14. Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Ruth King, Sounds True, $17.95, 9781683640813
15. The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan, Vintage, $20, 9781101912379
 
MASS MARKET
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780441172719
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
4. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098240
5. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99, 9780440180296
6. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110
7. Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $12, 9780140177398
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, Signet, $9.99, 9780451163967
9. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
10. The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Bantam, $6.95, 9780553213508
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Room on the Broom Push-Pull-Slide Board Book
Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593110409
2. Antiracist Baby
Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illus.), Kokila, $8.99, 9780593110508
3. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
4. Fern and Otto: A Story About Two Best Friends
Stephanie Graegin, Schwartz & Wade, $17.99, 9780593121306
5. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
6. I Am Every Good Thing
Derrick Barnes, Gordon C. James (Illus.), Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780525518778
7. Wild Symphony
Dan Brown, Susan Batori (Illus.), Rodale Kids, $18.99, 9780593123843
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
9. I Promise
LeBron James, Nina Mata (Illus.), Harper, $19.99, 9780062971067
10. The Little Kitten
Nicola Killen, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, $16.99, 9781534466968
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
1. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $14.99, 9781419749094
2. This Book Is Anti-Racist
Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand (Illus.), Frances Lincoln Children's Books, $14.99, 9780711245211
3. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $18.99, 9780062991317
4. Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian
Tim Probert, HarperAlley, $12.99, 9780062990464
5. Before the Ever After
Jacqueline Woodson, Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99, 9780399545436
6. Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson, Katherine Tegen Books, $17.99, 9780062840356
7. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780385754729
8. Watch Over Me
Nina LaCour, Dutton Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780593108970
9. Witches of Brooklyn
Sophie Escabasse, Random House Graphic, $12.99, 9780593119273
10. The Silver Arrow
Lev Grossman, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780316539531
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES
1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
2. Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levin 
3. Who Was/Is...?
Patricia Brennan Demuth, et al., Penguin Workshop 
4. The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic 
5. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic 
6. Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
7. The Last Kids on Earth
Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers 
8. Mercy Watson
Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.), Candlewick 
9. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic 
10. Legacy of Orisha
Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)