In the tumult of the holidays , a visit to the bookstore can provide a welcome bit of peace.

Even better? When you stride through the doors of your local independent bookshop with a fistful of sure-fire suggestions, ready to make friends and family happy with excellent, locally sourced books.

And so we’re here to help. ‘

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We reached out to local independent booksellers across Southern California’s Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties to get tips for holiday book-buying, and these booksellers — real readers with taste and insight, not algorithms — came through with more than 100 recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, romance, fantasy, horror and beyond.

If you

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