Southern California Best Sellers
hardcover fiction
1. Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf: $28) Lifelong best friends collaborate on a blockbuster video game.
2. I have some questions for you by Rebecca Makkai (Viking: $28) A film teacher, who is also a podcast host, returns to her boarding school and finds herself embroiled in an investigation of a murder that occurred there when she was a student.
3. Chemistry Lessons by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday: $29) In the 1960s, a chemist becomes a single mom, then a celebrity chef.
4. Copperhead Demon by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $33) The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
5. A day of fallen night by Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury: $35) Four women work to save the world in this prequel to “Orange Priory.”
6. Someone else’s shoes by Jojo Moyes (Pamela Dorman: $29) A struggling working woman has a life-changing experience when she tries on a pair of shoes belonging to a wealthy divorcee.
7. Encourage by Claire Keegan (Grove: $20) In Ireland, a father leaves his daughter on a farm to be raised by family members.
8. City of Victory by Salman Rushdie (Random House: $30) A 9-year-old girl is endowed with great powers in a new novel from the author of “The Satanic Verses.”
9. Murder your employer by Rupert Holmes (Avid Reader: $28) A novel set in a school that teaches the homicidal arts of the singer-songwriter, playwright, and author.
10. horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking: $28) Before the Civil War, an enslaved youth, a racehorse, and an artist begin a complex story that spans generations.
hardcover nonfiction
1. The creative act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) Guidance from the music producer on how to be a creative person.
2. I’m glad my mom died by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster: $28) Memoir of the star of the TV shows “iCarly” and “Sam & Cat.”
3. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy (HarperOne: $23) A modern fable explores life’s universal lessons through four archetypes.
4. No script by James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams (Penguin: $32) The inside story of the battle for control of the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire overseen by the Redstone family.
5. It’s OK to be angry at capitalism. by Bernie Sanders, John Nichols (Crown: $28) The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate takes on modern day capitalism.
6. enchantment by Katherine May (Riverhead: $26) The author of “Wintering” takes readers on her journey to discover what was missing from her life.
7. 8 rules of love by Jay Shetty (Simon & Schuster: $29) Romance advice from the author of “Think Like a Monk.”
8. Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris (Little, Brown: $36) A Silicon Valley story from the author of “Kids These Days.”
9. Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson (Dey Street: $30) Memoir of the actor and activist.
10. spare by Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex (Random House: $36) A groundbreaking and controversial memoir of British royalty.
paperback fiction
1. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine: $17)
2. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Washington Square: $17)
3.circe by Madeline Miller (Back Bay: $17)
4. The Paris apartment by Lucy Foley (tomorrow: $19)
5. The silent patient by Alex Michaelides (Celadon: $18)
6. End with us by Colleen Hoover (Atria: $17)
7. The School of Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster: $18)
8. Prayer by Louise Erdrich (Harper: $18)
9. Play as it gets by Joan Didion (FSG: $17)
10. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury: $19)
paperback nonfiction
1. Sweet Grass Braid by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed: $20)
2. All about love by bell hooks (tomorrow: $17)
3. The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer (New Harbinger: $19)
4. These precious days by Ann Patchett (Harper: $18)
5. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House: $20)
6. Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe (Presenter: $18)
7. Just kids by Patti Smith (Ecco: $17)
8. Attached by Amir Levine, Rachel Heller (TarcherPerigee: $17)
9. The path of the artist by Julia Cameron (Tarcher Perigee: $19)
10. My body by Emily Ratajkowski (Metro: $17)
