The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the
sales week ended Sunday, December 15, 2024. 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. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
3. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
5. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
6. Wind and Truth
Brandon Sanderson, Tor Books, $39.99, 9781250319180
7. Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $30, 9780593446096
8. The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny, Minotaur Books, $30, 9781250328137
9. Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner, Scribner, $29.99, 9781982116521
10. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
11. Playground
Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031
12. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $35, 9780593801970
13. Good Material
Dolly Alderton, Knopf, $28, 9780593801307
14. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
15. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hanover Square Press, $19.99, 9781335430991
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240
2. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $34, 9780593799895
3. The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates, One World, $30, 9780593230381
4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
5. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316575805
6. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, $35, 9780593734223
7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
8. Freedom: Memoirs 1954 — 2021
Angela Merkel, St. Martin's Press, $40, 9781250319906
9. What I Ate in One Year: (And Related Thoughts)
Stanley Tucci, Gallery Books, $35, 9781668055687
10. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060
11. Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
James Norbury, Mandala Publishing, $19.99, 9781647225124
12. Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $29.99, 9781668065488
13. How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
Richard Schoch, Atria Books, $28.99, 9781668030592
14. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
Joe Posnanski, Dutton, $30, 9780593475522
15. Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher, Dey Street Books, $36, 9780062863102
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
2. Wicked
Gregory Maguire, William Morrow Paperbacks, $19.99, 9780062852847
3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
4. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
5. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
6. The Vegetarian
Han Kang, Hogarth, $17, 9781101906118
7. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18, 9780593312070
8. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263
9. Normal People
Sally Rooney, Crown, $17, 9781984822185
10. Annihilation (10th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff VanderMeer, Picador, $18, 9781250824042
11. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371
12. The Best American Short Stories 2024
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner Books, $19.99, 9780063275959
13. The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters, Catapult, $17.95, 9781646222384
14. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400
15. The Hunter
Tana French, Penguin, $19, 9780593493458
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
3. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
4. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982163310
5. Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey, Crown, $20, 9780593139158
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
7. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
8. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
9. Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller, Simon & Schuster, $17.99, 9781501160349
10. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767
11. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99, 9780062316110
12. The Eater Guide to Los Angeles (Eater City Guide)
Eater, Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419765827
13. How to Listen (Mindfulness Essentials #11)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9780984627110
14. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
Bill McKibben, Jaime Green (Eds.), Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063333994
15. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
4. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279
5. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
Merriam-Webster, $9.50, 9780877795957
6. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
8. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
9. Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345409874
10. The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9781250318572
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 
1. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536223767
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593434383
3. Santa's First Christmas
Mac Barnett, Sydney Smith (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593524978
4. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
5. Where's Bluey? At Christmas
Penguin Young Readers, $8.99, 9780593752982
6. The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg, HMH Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780544580145
7. The Bakery Dragon
Devin Elle Kurtz, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593710968
8. Little Blue Truck's Christmas
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), HMH Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780544320413
9. Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997
10. Knight Owl and Early Bird
Christopher Denise, Christy Ottaviano Books, $18.99, 9780316564526
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
2. The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316554732
3. The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin, Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593527542
4. Letters from Father Christmas
J.R.R. Tolkien, William Morrow, $28, 9780063340534
5. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
6. The Sherlock Society
James Ponti, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665932530
7. Stella & Marigold
Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illus.), Chronicle Books, $15.99, 9781797219707
8. Charlotte's Web
E. B. White, HarperCollins, $10.99, 9780064400558
9. The Last Dragon on Mars
Scott Reintgen, Aladdin, $18.99, 9781665946513
10. How to Fool Your Parents: 25 Brain-Breaking Magic Tricks
David Kwong, Michael Korfhage (Illus.), HarperCollins, $12.99, 9780063140585
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin 
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams 
4. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
6. The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick 
7. Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic 
8. Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling, Scholastic 
9. InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, First Second 
10. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion