Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

1. The Women

Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633

2. The Paris Novel

Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302

3. All Fours

Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265

4. James

Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369

5. Table for Two: Fictions

Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370

6. The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145

7. Lies and Weddings

Kevin Kwan, Doubleday, $29, 9780385546294

8. You Like It Darker: Stories

Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668037713

9. Funny Story

Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282

10. Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042

11. Five Broken Blades (Deluxe Limited Edition)

Mai Corland, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $32.99, 9781649376909

12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946

13. Camino Ghosts

John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545990

14. One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $29.99, 9781668025598

15. The Hunter

Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434

1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886

2. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744

3. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey, Grand Central, $35, 9781538740767

4. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Bill Maher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668051351

5. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Sebastian Junger, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781668050835

6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764

7. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060

8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030

9. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663

10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260

11. The Journey: Big Panda and Tiny Dragon

James Norbury, Mandala Publishing, $21.99, 9781647229733

12. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna, Ecco, $29.99, 9780062825230

13. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416

14. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger, Harper, $29.99, 9780063073852

15. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569

2. Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431

3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933

4. Beach Read

Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734

5. Rouge

Mona Awad, S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, $18.99, 9781982169701

6. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463

7. Trust

Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324

8. Circe

Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323

9. This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638880

10. The Guest

Emma Cline, Random House, $18, 9780812988031

11. A Court of Frost and Starlight

Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $17, 9781635575620

12. The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $17, 9780802124944

13. The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030

14. The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624

15. The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007

1. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917— 2017

Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651

2. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791

3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131

4. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741

5. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

6. Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)

Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255

7. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372

8. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767

9. All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470

10. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951

11. Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

Cristina Rivera Garza, Hogarth, $18, 9780593244111

12. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

bell hooks, Washington Square Press, $17.99, 9780743456081

13. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831

14. Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22, 9780374533557

15. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition

Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257

1. Dune

Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340

2. Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233

3. Good Omens

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977

4. American Gods

Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

5. Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296

6. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803

7. Animal Farm

George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342

8. The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553288209

9. Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541

10. A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716

1. Goodnight Moon

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

2. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274

3. Good Night, Gorilla

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

4. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908

5. All the World

Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781481431217

6. Grumpy Monkey

Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997

7. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography

Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718

8. The Squish

Breanna Carzoo, Harper, $19.99, 9780063334939

9. Daddy

Leslie Patricelli, Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536203820

10. My Dad Is Awesome by Bluey and Bingo

Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593519653

1. The One and Only Family

Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123

2. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207

3. Promise Boys

Nick Brooks, Henry Holt and Co. BYR, $19.99, 9781250866974

4. Hatchet

Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293

5. D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Ingri D’Aulaire, Delacorte, $19.99, 9780440406945

6. Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen, Anna Bond (Illus.), Puffin Books, $17, 9780593622452

7. She Is a Haunting

Trang Thanh Tran, Bloomsbury YA, $12.99, 9781547615681

8. The Misfits #1: A Royal Conundrum

Lisa Yee, Dan Santat (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781984830296

9. Five Survive

Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191

10. James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780142410363

1. Dog Man

Dav Pilkey, Graphix 

2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Rick Riordan, Hyperion 

3. Wild Robot

Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 

4. Who Was/Is…?

Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop 

5. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson, Ember 

6. Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels

Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.), Graphix 

7. The Princess in Black

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, Leuyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick 

8. Magic Tree House

Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 

9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney, Amulet 

10. Loveboat

Abigail Hing Wen, HarperTeen