Bestsellers this week in SoCal indie bookstores

"When the Killing's Done" by T.C. Boyle is the top-selling hardcover fiction in Southern California this week, at least at independent bookstores. For comparison's sake, in Northern California Boyle is just number eight and the leader is — still! — "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" by Stieg Larsson.

Here in SoCal, Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" leads the nonfiction hardcover list, just ahead of Keith Richards' "Life." On the paperback side, SoCal is reading "The Three Weissmanns of Westport" by Cathleen Schine, and Patti Smith's "Just Kids." Full lists through sales of Feb. 27 are after the jump.

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. When the Killing's Done
T.C. Boyle, Viking, $26.95, 9780670022328
2. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670022410
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
4. Gideon's Sword
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446564328
5. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995
6. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
7. West of Here
Jonathan Evison, Algonquin, $24.95, 9781565129528
8. Treachery in Death
J.D. Robb, Putnam Adult, $26.95, 9780399157035
9. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
10. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28, 9780374158460

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
2. Life
Keith Richards, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316034388
3. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316001922
4. A Widow's Story: A Memoir
Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco, $27.99, 9780062015532
5. Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, University of California Press, $34.95, 9780520267190
6. Known and Unknown
Donald Rumsfeld, Sentinel, $36, 9781595230676
7. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202841
8. And Furthermore
Judi Dench, St. Martin's, $26.99, 9780312659066
9. Against All Odds
Scott Brown, Harper, $27.99, 9780062015549
10. The 4-Hour Body
Timothy Ferriss, Crown, $27, 9780307463630

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527
2. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
3. The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671
4. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
5. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781565125605
6. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
7. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
8. True Grit
Charles Portis, Overlook, $14.95, 9781590204597
9. Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Vintage, $15, 9780307740991
10. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228
2. The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393338829
3. The King's Speech
Mark Logue, Peter Conradi, Sterling, $14.95, 9781402786761
4. Zeitoun
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307387943
5. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Rebecca Solnit, Sandow Birk (Illus.), University of California Press, $24.95,
9780520262508
6. Lunch in Paris
Elizabeth Bard, Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316042789
7. Inside of a Dog
Alexandra Horowitz, Scribner, $16, 9781416583431
8. Slake: Los Angeles, a City and Its Stories, No. 2: Crossing Over
Laurie Ochoa (Ed.), Slake Media, $18, 9780984563517
9. Tattoos on the Heart
Gregory Boyle, Free Press, $14, 9781439153154
10. Real Happiness
Sharon Salzberg, Workman, $14.95, 9780761159254

MASS MARKET
1. The Black Cat
Martha Grimes, Signet, $9.99, 9780451232946
2. The First Rule
Robert Crais, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425238127
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
4. This Body of Death
Elizabeth George, Harper, $9.99, 9780061160912
5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
6. U Is for Undertow
Sue Grafton, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425238110
7. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307476159
8. Split Image
Robert B. Parker, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425239735
9. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition
Merriam-Webster, $7.50, 9780877799290
10. Deep Shadow
Randy Wayne White, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425240090

The SoCal Indie Bestseller List is for the sales week ended Sunday, February 27. 2011. It is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound.