The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended June 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. Whistler: Ann Patchett
2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce): Caro Claire Burke
3. Land: Maggie O’Farrell
4. The Midnight Train: Matt Haig
5. The Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout
6. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett
7. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
8. Heart the Lover: Lily King
9. Ironwood: Michael Connelly
10. The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions: Ruth Ozeki
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham
2. The Land and Its People: Essays: David Sedaris
3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
4. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: Patrick Radden Keefe
5. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness: Michael Pollan
6. All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches: Ben Rhodes
7. Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children: Mac Barnett
8. Shameful Silence: What You Don’t Know about Domestic Violence: Alexandra Lozano
9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
10. The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog: Maybell Eequay
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
2. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
3. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
4. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
5. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
6. Angel Down: Daniel Kraus
7. The Odyssey: Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.)
8. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
10. James: Percival Everett
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly: Anthony Bourdain
2. Rewrite the Program: How to Stop Conforming, Start Exploring, and Find Fulfillment: Eli Bowman
3. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
4. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI: Karen Hao
5. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
7. Things in Nature Merely Grow: Yiyun Li
8. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion, Farrar
10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann