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Before you do your post-Thanksgiving shopping, here are the books that Southern California's most literate readers are buying.
1. V Is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton
2. 11/22/63
Stephen King
3. The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
4. The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
5. The Litigators
John Grisham
6. 1Q84
Haruki Murakami
7. The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Don DeLillo
8. A Dance With Dragons
George R.R. Martin
9. Kill Alex Cross
James Patterson
10. Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
Steve Jobs leads the nonfiction list. More inside.
1. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
2. Blue Nights
Joan Didion
3. Then Again
Diane Keaton
4. West by West
Jerry West, Jonathan Coleman
5. Spontaneous Happiness
Andrew Weil
6. Food Rules
Michael Pollan, Maira Kalman (Illus.)
7. Go the F**k to Sleep
Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (Illus.)
8. Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
9. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
10. ZooBorns Cats!
Andrew Bleiman
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht
2. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
3. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
4. The Help
Kathryn Stockett
5. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
6. An Object of Beauty
Steve Martin
7. Smokin' Seventeen
Janet Evanovich
8. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
9. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
10. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.)
Trade Paperback Nonfiction
1. Unlikely Friendships
Jennifer S. Holland
2. Awkward Family Pet Photos
Mike Bender, Doug Chernack
3. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff
4. Just Kids
Patti Smith
5. F in Exams
Richard Benson
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
7. Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
8. Zagat Los Angeles/So. California Restaurants 2012
Zagat
9. Eat: Los Angeles 2012
Pat Saperstein, Linda Burum
10. Snark! The Herald Angels Sing
Lawrence Dorfman
More from the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and Indiebound.