The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended April 21 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. James: Percival Everett
2. The Women: Kristin Hannah
3. Table for Two: Fictions: Amor Towles
4. The Familiar: Leigh Bardugo
5. The Hunter: Tana French
6. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
8. Until August: Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (Transl.)
9. A Calamity of Souls: David Baldacci
10. North Woods: Daniel Mason
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Somehow: Thoughts on Love: Anne Lamott
2. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder: Salman Rushdie
3. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell
5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
9. Grief Is for People: Sloane Crosley
10. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present: Fareed Zakaria
MASS MARKET
1. Dune: Frank Herbert
2. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert
3. 1984: George Orwell
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson
5. The Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
6. And Then There Were None: Agatha Christie
7. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
8. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
9. Carrie: Stephen King
10. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.)
2. Just for the Summer: Abby Jimenez
3. Dune: Frank Herbert
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas
5. How to End a Love Story: Yulin Kuang
6. Old God’s Time: Sebastian Barry
7. A Gentleman in Moscow: Amor Towles
8. Horse: Geraldine Brooks
9. Weyward: Emilia Hart
10. The Great Alone: Kristin Hannah
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