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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended June 22 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. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid

2. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong

3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: V. E. Schwab

4. James: Percival Everett

5. Great Big Beautiful Life: Emily Henry

6. King of Ashes: S. A. Cosby

7. My Friends: Fredrik Backman

8. The River Is Waiting: Wally Lamb

9. Nightshade: Michael Connelly

10. With a Vengeance: Riley Sager

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Abundance: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

2. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins

3. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green

4. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin: Steve Martin

5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad

6. Mark Twain: Ron Chernow

7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin

8. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World: Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.)

9. I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir: Keith McNally

10. It Rhymes With Takei: George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, Harmony Becker (Ilus.)

MASS MARKET

1. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

2. Animal Farm: George Orwell

3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

4. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

5. 1984: George Orwell

6. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton

7. Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse

8. Interview with the Vampire: Anne Rice

9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou

10. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Malcom X

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. All Fours: Miranda July

2. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt

3. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley

4. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

5. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman

6. One Golden Summer: Carley Fortune

7. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: Ocean Vuong

8. Sandwich: Catherine Newman

9. Parable of the Sower: Octavia E. Butler

10. The Frozen River: Ariel Lawhon

 

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