The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended March 31 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. James: Percival Everett
2. The Women: Kristin Hannah
3. The Hunter: Tana French
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
5. Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange
6. Until August: Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (Transl.)
7. North Woods: Daniel Mason
8. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
10. Expiration Dates: Rebecca Serle
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
4. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present: Fareed Zakaria
5. I’m Glad My Mom Died: Jennette McCurdy
6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
7. There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension: Hanif Abdurraqib
8. Nuclear War: A Scenario: Annie Jacobsen
9. Grief Is for People: Sloane Crosley
10. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen: David Brooks
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
3. 1984: George Orwell
4. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
6. Foundation: Isaac Asimov
7. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
8. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie
10. Shadows of Self: Brandon Sanderson
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. Happy Place: Emily Henry
3. The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.)
4. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
5. Pineapple Street: Jenny Jackson
6. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
7. Trust: Hernan Diaz
8. Horse: Geraldine Brooks
9. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
10. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology: Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.)
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