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    This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
    • December 10, 2025

    The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended Dec. 7 is 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 Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: Kiran Desai

    2. The Secret of Secrets: Dan Brown

    3. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans

    4. Heart the Lover: Lily King

    5. Flesh: David Szalay

    6. The Black Wolf: Louise Penny

    7. What We Can Know: Ian McEwan

    8. The Widow: John Grisham

    9. House of Day, House of Night: Olga Tokarczuk

    10. Katabasis: R. F. Kuang

    HARDCOVER NONFICTION

    1. Bread of Angels: A Memoir: Patti Smith

    2. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck: Sophie Elmhirst

    3. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds

    4. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation: Andrew Ross Sorkin

    5. Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm: Charlie Mackesy

    6. The Uncool: A Memoir: Cameron Crowe

    7. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds: John Fugelsang

    8. Something from Nothing: A Cookbook: Alison Roman

    9. The Greatest Sentence Ever Written: Walter Isaacson

    10. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad

    MASS MARKET

    1. 1984: George Orwell

    2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

    3. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson

    4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

    5. Hyperion: Dan Simmons

    6. A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin

    7. The Fall of Hyperion: Dan Simmons

    8. The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien

    9. Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen

    10. Words of Radiance: Brandon Sanderson

    TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

    1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir

    2. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

    3. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore

    4. Train Dreams: Denis Johnson

    5. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon

    6. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

    7. North Woods: Daniel Mason

    8. The Lion Women of Tehran: Marjan Kamali

    9. Isola: Allegra Goodman

    10. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt

     

     

    ​ Orange County Register 

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