The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended May 10 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 Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout
3. The Correspondent: Virginia Evans
4. The Calamity Club: Kathryn Stockett
5. John of John: Douglas Stuart
6. Our Perfect Storm: Carley Fortune
7. Go Gentle: Maria Semple
8. Transcription: Ben Lerner
9. Platform Decay: Martha Wells
10. Heart the Lover: Lily King
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage: Belle Burden
2. Famesick: A Memoir: Lena Dunham
3. Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children: Mac Barnett
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. Backtalker: An American Memoir: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad
8. When We See You Again: Rachel Goldberg-Polin
9. The Sane One: A Memoir by the Co-creator of Pen15: Anna Konkle
10. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism: Stewart Reynolds
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Theo of Golden: Allen Levi
2. Project Hail Mary (Movie Tie-In): Andy Weir
3. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
4. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
5. The Lion Women of Tehran: Marjan Kamali
6. Rejection: Fiction: Tony Tulathimutte
7. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
8. Heated Rivalry: Rachel Reid
9. James: Percival Everett
10. The Last Contract of Isako: Fonda Lee
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing: Lili Taylor
2. Hell in a Handbag: Jibz Cameron
3. Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves: Sophie Gilbert
4. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
5. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir: Ina Garten
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants: Robin Wall Kimmerer
7. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles: Rosecrans Baldwin
8. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays: Joan Didion
9. Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences: Anton Jäger
10. The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change: Rebecca Solnit