The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended April 14 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. The Familiar: Leigh Bardugo
3. The Women: Kristin Hannah
4. James: Percival Everett
5. North Woods: Daniel Mason
6. City in Ruins: Don Winslow
7. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
8. The Hunter: Tana French
9. Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange
10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Somehow: Thoughts on Love: Anne Lamott
2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
4. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
5. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
6. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
7. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present: Fareed Zakaria
8. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection: Charles Duhigg
9. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
10. The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir: RuPaul
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
3. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
5. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
6. Foundation: Isaac Asimov
7. Carrie: Stephen King
8. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
9. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert
10. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.)
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
4. Pineapple Street: Jenny Jackson
5. Just for the Summer: Abby Jimenez
6. Trust: Hernan Diaz
7. Bunny: Mona Awad
8. Happy Place: Emily Henry
9. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
10. Weyward: Emilia Hart
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