The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended May 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. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce): Caro Claire Burke
2. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
3. John of John: Douglas Stuart
4. The Midnight Train: Matt Haig
5. Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It: Brooke Averick
6. The Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout
7. Ironwood: Michael Connelly
8. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett
9. Transcription: Ben Lerner
10. Heart the Lover: Lily King
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Land and Its People: Essays: David Sedaris
2. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
4. Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children: Mac Barnett
5. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: Patrick Radden Keefe
6. How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University: Theo Baker
7. Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter: Neil deGrasse Tyson
8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
9. All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: Ben Rhodes
10. Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America: Chris Murphy
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
2. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
3. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
4. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
5. Great Big Beautiful Life: Emily Henry
6. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
7. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
8. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
10. James: Percival Everett
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI: Karen Hao
2. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
3. Things in Nature Merely Grow: Yiyun Li
4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
5. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: M.D. Bessel van der Kolk
6. Sonny Boy: A Memoir: Al Pacino
7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants: Robin Wall Kimmerer
8. The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
9. Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves: Sophie Gilbert
10. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion