This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the sales week that ended April 28.
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended April 28 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. Funny Story: Emily Henry
2. James:Percival Everett
3. The Women: Kristin Hannah
4. Table for Two: Fictions: Amor Towles
5. The Familiar: Leigh Bardugo
6. The Paris Novel: Ruth Reichl
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
8. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
9. North Woods: Daniel Mason
10. Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
4. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder: Salman Rushdie
5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love: Anne Lamott
6. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent: Judi Dench, Brendan O’Hea
7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
8. The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing: Adam Moss
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
10. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
6. A Raisin in the Sun: Lorraine Hansberry
7. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
8. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert
9. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
10. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
2. Big Swiss: Jen Beagin
3. The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.)
4. Play It As It Lays: Joan Didion
5. Just for the Summer: Abby Jimenez
6. Romantic Comedy: Curtis Sittenfeld
7. Beach Read: Emily Henry
8. Dune: Frank Herbert
9. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
10. Trust: Hernan Diaz