Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

1. The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430

2. Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622

3. Brawler: Stories
Lauren Groff, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593418420

4. Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176

5. Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181

6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai, Hogarth, $32, 9780307700155

7. Half His Age
Jennette McCurdy, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593723739

8. Now I Surrender
Álvaro Enrigue, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593084076

9. Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237

10. This Is Not About Us: Fiction
Allegra Goodman, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593447840

11. Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250827951

12. Flesh
David Szalay, Scribner, $28.99, 9781982122799

13. So Old, So Young
Grant Ginder, Gallery/Scout Press, $30, 9781668051771

14. Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman, Tor Nightfire, $29.99, 9781250439208

15. Lady Tremaine
Rachel Hochhauser, St. Martin’s Press, $29, 9781250396341

 1. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991

2. Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30, 9781984881939

3. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318

4. A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593854280

5. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005

6. You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
Christina Applegate, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316594929

7. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148

8. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Jacob Soboroff, Mariner Books, $30, 9780063467965

9. We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Norah O’Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower, Ballantine Books, $35, 9780593727027

10. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Knopf, $35, 9780593493120

11. Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress
Cazzie David, St. Martin’s Press, $29, 9781250357632

12. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030

13. Becoming Legend: The Billion-Dollar Blueprint to Be a Whale in a Sea of Sharks
Berner, Harmony, $29, 9780593736647

14. Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith, Random House, $30, 9781101875124

15. We Are the World (Cup): A Personal History of the World’s Greatest Sporting Event
Roger Bennett, Dey Street Books, $30, 9780063320772

 1. Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine, $22, 9780593135228

2. Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512

3. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600

4. Wuthering Heights (Movie Tie-In)
Emily Brontë, Penguin Books, $18, 9780143139140

5. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164

6. Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876

7. The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594

8. Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood, Riverhead Books, $19, 9798217047369

9. Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637

10. Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254

11. Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17.99, 9781635577808

12. Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Simon & Schuster, $17, 9781451673319

13. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840

14. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263

15. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778

 1. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004

2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114

3. Duct Tape and White Lies: A Woman’s Practical Guide to Real Life Success
Emily Lampkin, Regalo Press, $21.99, 9798895654996

4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490

5. I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831

6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.,, Penguin, $19, 9780143127741

7. Straight from the Grapevine: How to Crush Your Job Search
Rachel Zaslansky Sheer, Lori Zuker Briller, Post Hill Press, $18.99, 9798895654750

8. On Democracy
Walt Whitman, Library of America, $12.5, 9781598538465

9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560

10. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147

11. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199

12. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386

13. Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop: Santa Monica’s Legendary Music Venue
Peter Alan Lesser, History Press, $24.99, 9781467159272

14. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456

15. On Freedom
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $20, 9780593728741

 1. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935

2. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342

3. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487

4. The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $8.95, 9780451530608

5. Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $6.99, 9780743477123

6. Storm Front
Jim Butcher, Ace, $10.99, 9780451457813

7. Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686

8. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279

9. Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare, Simon & Schuster, $9.99, 9781451621709

10. It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, Signet, $10.99, 9780451465641

 1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617

2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908

3. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035

4. Spot’s First Easter: A Lift-the-Flap Easter Classic
Eric Hill, Warne, $9.99, 9780241658048

5. I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $8.99, 9780375827785

6. For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977

7. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Dr.Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780394800134

8. Richard Scarry’s Easter Cars and Trucks
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $4.99, 9798217115921

9. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801

10. Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the Crayons (The Crayons Celebrate)
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593624333

 1. Unsettling Salad! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961110

2. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780375842207

3. The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World
Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, Cynthia Yuan Cheng (Illus.), Rocky Pond Books, $14.99, 9798217111916

4. The Lions’ Run
Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392817

5. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891

6. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
Jon Klassen, Candlewick, $19.99, 9781536223361

7. Frog and Toad Are Friends (50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)
Arnold Lobel, Harper, $19.99, 9780062983435

8. The One and Only Bob
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Storytide, $10.99, 9780062991324

9. The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate McKinnon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780316554831

10. Cabin Head and Tree Head
Scott Campbell, Tundra Books, $9.99, 9781774885079

1. Wings of Fire
   Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
   Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
3. Dog Man
   Dav Pilkey, Graphix
4. The First Cat in Space
   Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), HarperAlley
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
   Rick Riordan, Hyperion
6. Magic Tree House
   Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
7. Spy School
   Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
8. InvestiGators
   John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second
9. Dragon Masters
   Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic
10. 10. City Spies
    James Ponti, Aladdin