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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 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

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