The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended April 7 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. Table for Two: Fictions: Amor Towles
2. James: Percival Everett
3. The Women: Kristin Hannah
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
5. City in Ruins: Don Winslow
6. Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange
7. The Hunter: Tana French
8. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus
9. Until August: Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (Transl.)
10. Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. Think This, Not That: 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be: Josh Axe
3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
4. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story: Kara Swisher
5. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection: Charles Duhigg
6. There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension: Hanif Abdurraqib
7. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood: Ed Zwick
8. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool: James Kaplan
9. Nuclear War: A Scenario: Annie Jacobsen
10. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. 1984: George Orwell
3. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
4. Animal Farm: George Orwell
5. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
6. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
9. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert
10. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.)
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
3. Dune: Frank Herbert
4. A Court of Mist and Fury: Sarah J. Maas
5. Just for the Summer: Abby Jimenez
6. Happy Place: Emily Henry
7. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
8. Birnam Wood: Eleanor Catton
9. Pineapple Street: Jenny Jackson
10. Trust: Hernan Diaz
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