The SoCal Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SCIBA, for the sales week ended Sunday, December 2, 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. Kingdom of the Blind Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250066206 2. Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $29.99, 9780062684561 3. Dark Sacred Night Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $29, 9780316484800 4. There There Tommy Orange, Knopf, $25.95, 9780525520375 5. Past Tense Lee Child, Delacorte Press, $28.99, 9780399593512 6. The Friend Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead, $25, 9780735219441 7. The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem, Ecco, $26.99, 9780062859068 8. Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250069825 9. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom, Harper, $23.99, 9780062294449 10. Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30, 9780525520047 11. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Helene Tursten, Soho Crime, $12.99, 9781641290111 12. The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa, Berkley, $20, 9780451491336 13. Transcription Kate Atkinson, Little Brown, $28, 9780316176637 14. My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite, Doubleday, $22.95, 9780385544238 15. A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles, Viking, $27, 9780670026197 HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Becoming Michelle Obama, Crown, $32.50, 9781524763138 2. Educated Tara Westover, Random House, $28, 9780399590504 3. Almost Everything Anne Lamott, Riverhead, $20, 9780525537441 4. The Library Book Susan Orlean, S&S, $28, 9781476740188 5. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (Illus.), Random House, $22, 9781984854278 6. Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi, Ten Speed Press, $35, 9781607749165 7. Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don't Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane The Staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, S&S, $14.99, 9781982121082 8. How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illus.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $20, 9780544938328 9. Leadership: In Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S, $30, 9781476795928 10. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight, Simon & Schuster, $37.5, 9781416590316 11. Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking, Bantam, $25, 9781984819192 12. Cook Like a Pro Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780804187046 13. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781607747307 14. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illus.), S&S, $35, 9781476753836 15. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari, Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9780525512172 TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 1. Less Andrew Sean Greer, Back Bay, $15.99, 9780316316132 2. Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan, Anchor, $16, 9780525563761 3. Asymmetry Lisa Halliday, S&S, $16, 9781501166785 4. The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris, Harper, $16.99, 9780062797155 5. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman, Penguin, $16, 9780735220690 6. Pachinko Min Jin Lee, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455563920 7. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609455064 8. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007 9. Milkman Anna Burns, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450000 10. The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486792 11. In the Midst of Winter Isabel Allende, Atria, $17, 9781501178146 12. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Perennial, $14.99, 9780060935467 13. The Best American Short Stories 2018 Roxane Gay, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, $15.99, 9780544582941 14. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $17, 9781501173219 15. The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99, 9780062060624 TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $22.99, 9780062316110 2. Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $16.99, 9780060899226 3. How to Fight Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason Deantonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781941529867 4. The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks, Vintage, $16.95, 9780804171007 5. The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310 6. 111 Places in Los Angeles That You Must Not Miss Laurel Moglen, Julia Posey, Emons Publishers, $19.9, 9783954518845 7. The Old Farmer's Almanac 2019 Old Farmer's Almanac, $7.95, 9781571987730 8. The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World Andrea Wulf, Vintage, $17, 9780345806291 9. On Writing Stephen King, Scribner, $17, 9781439156810 10. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761 11. Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann, Vintage, $16.95, 9780307742483 12. How to Love Thich Nhat Hanh, Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006884 13. You Are a Badass Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16, 9780762447695 14. Being Mortal Atul Gawande, Picador, $17, 9781250076229 15. The Vanity Fair Diaries Tina Brown, Picador, $20, 9781250191250 MASS MARKET 1. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719 2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $7.99, 9780345391803 3. Good Omens Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99, 9780060853983 4. All-American Cowboy Dylann Crush, Sourcebooks Casablanca, $7.99, 9781492663669 5. The Late Show Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $9.99, 9781455524228 6. Typhoon Fury Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison, Putnam, $9.99, 9780399575594 7. Siddhartha Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $5.99, 9780553208849 8. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99, 9780756404741 9. Macbeth William Shakespeare, S&S, $5.99, 9780743477109 10. Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes, Harvest, $8.95, 9780156030083 CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 1. The Wonky Donkey Craig Smith, Katz Cowley (Illus.), Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545261241 2. Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote Kirsten Gillibrand, Maira Kalman (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780525579014 3. The Polar Express Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780544580145 4. Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617 5. The Snowy Nap Jan Brett, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780399170737 6. Little Blue Truck's Christmas Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780544320413 7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908 8. Little Blue Truck Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780544568037 9. Animalphabet Julia Donaldson, Sharon King-Chai (Illus.), Dial Books, $20.99, 9780525554158 10. Carmela Full of Wishes Matt de la Peņa, Christian Robinson (Illus.), G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young, Readers, $17.99, 9780399549045 CHILDREN'S INTEREST 1. The Hate U Give Angie Thomas, Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9780062871350 2. Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), $18.99, 9781250170972 3. Squirm Carl Hiaasen, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780385752978 4. Wonder R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9781524720193 5. The House with a Clock in Its Walls John Bellairs, Edward Gorey (Illus.), Puffin, $7.99, 9780451481283 6. Girls of Paper and Fire Natasha Ngan, jimmy patterson, $18.99, 9780316561365 7. Skyward Brandon Sanderson, Delacorte Press, $19.99, 9780399555770 8. The Giver Lois Lowry, HMH Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780544340688 9. The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid Dylan Thuras, Rosemary Mosco, Joy Ang (Illus.), Workman, $19.95, 9781523503544 10. Mac Undercover (Mac B., Kid Spy #1) Mac Barnett, Mike Lowery (Illus.), Orchard Books, $12.99, 9781338143591 CHILDREN'S SERIES 1. Harry Potter J.K. Rowling, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books 2. Dog Man Dav Pilkey, Graphix 3. Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House 4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney, Amulet 5. Who Was/Is...? Ann Waldron, et al., Penguin Workshop 6. Keeper of the Lost Cities Shannon Messenger, Aladdin 7. Wings of Fire Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic 8. The Princess in Black Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Candlewick 9. Elephant & Piggie Mo Willems, Hyperion 10. The Bad Guys Aaron Blabey, Scholastic