Number One in Hardcover Fiction:Yesteryear (Indies Introduce):Caro Claire Burke, published by Knopf.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,May17, 2026. This list 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
- Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216 - The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746 - The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430 - John of John
Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194 - A Parade of Horribles
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $32.00, 9798217190065 - Our Perfect Storm
Carley Fortune, Berkley, $30.00, 9780593953242 - The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812 - Go Gentle
Maria Semple, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $30.00, 9798217176632 - Transcription
Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25.00, 9780374618599 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802165176 - Platform Decay
Martha Wells, Tor Books, $24.99, 9781250827005 - The Fourth Option
Jack Carr, M.P. Woodward, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, $30.00, 9781668072011 - The Tapestry of Fate
Shannon Chakraborty, Harper Voyager, $32.00, 9780062963543 - Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28.00, 9780525509622 - The Keeper
Tana French, Viking, $32.00, 9780593493465
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318 - London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533 - Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32.00, 9780593129326 - Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children
Mac Barnett, Little, Brown and Company, $20.00, 9780316601122 - Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Simon Six, $26.00, 9781668249970 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9780593652886 - A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32.00, 9781984881991 - The Mission Generation: Reclaim Your Purpose, Rewrite Success, Rebuild Our Future
Arun Gupta, Thomas J. Fewer, Wiley, $29.00, 9781394408177 - Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Molly Crabapple, One World, $32.00, 9780593229453 - The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22.00, 9781668209028 - Invincible: Defy Your Genetic Destiny to Live Better, Longer
Florence Comite, MD, Little, Brown Spark, $32.00, 9780316595551 - Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27.00, 9780735211292 - Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir
Isabel Klee, William Morrow, $28.00, 9780063451070 - Start With Yourself: A New Vision for Work & Life
Emma Grede, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00, 9781668085486 - This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Craig Fehrman, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $35.00, 9781982174248
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461 - Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254 - Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925 - James
Percival Everett, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593686867 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - Isola
Allegra Goodman, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $19.00, 9780593730102 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18.00, 9780525559498 - The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250 - East of Eden
John Steinbeck, Penguin, $23.00, 9780142004234 - Red Rising
Pierce Brown, Del Rey, $18.00, 9780345539809 - The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
