Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

1. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369

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

3. The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434

4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946

5. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $29, 9780593318256

6. Until August
Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (Transl.), Knopf, $22, 9780593801994

7. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House, $28, 9780593597033

8. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Knopf, $28, 9780593321201

9. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619

10. Expiration Dates
Rebecca Serle, Atria Books, $27, 9781982166823

11. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922

12. Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, Harper, $30, 9780063327528

13. The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374600303

14. Foster
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802160140

15. Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042

1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886

2. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292

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

4. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232

5. I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781982185824

6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260

7. There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House, $32, 9780593448793

8. Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen, Dutton, $30, 9780593476093

9. Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley, MCD, $27, 9780374609849

10. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks, Random House, $30, 9780593230060

11. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg, Random House, $30, 9780593243916

12. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck
Mark Manson, Harper, $26.99, 9780062457714

13. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans, Crown, $30, 9780593239056

14. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant, Viking, $32, 9780593653142

15. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Rachel Maddow, Crown, $32, 9780593444511

1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593

2. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190

3. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030

4. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498

5. Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson, Penguin, $18, 9780593490716

6. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569

7. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324

8. Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976

9. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780593201732

10. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463

11. Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090

12. The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007

13. I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai, Penguin, $19, 9780593490167

14. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, Penguin, $18, 9780525522133

15. Weyward
Emilia Hart, St. Martin’s Griffin, $19, 9781250842725

1. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470

2. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831

3. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257

4. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951

5. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcolm Harris, Back Bay Books, $22.99, 9780316592017

6. Cinema Speculation
Quentin Tarantino, Harper Perennial, $21, 9780063112575

7. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651

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

9. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $21, 9780593230275

10. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791

11. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Nina Totenberg, Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781982188092

12. Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255

13. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431

14. The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene, Penguin, $26, 9780140280197

15. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Suleika Jaouad, Random House, $20, 9780399588600

1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593438367

2. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233

3. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

4. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296

5. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129

6. Foundation
Isaac Asimov, Spectra, $8.99, 9780553293357

7. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

8. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541

9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $10.99, 9780063221086

10. Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9780765378569

1. I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $7.99, 9780375827785

2. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718

3. Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9781536210637

4. Happy Easter from the Crayons
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel Books, $9.99, 9780593621059

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

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

7. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007

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

9. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne, $8.99, 9780723247708

10. The Story of Easter: A Christian Easter Book for Kids
Jean Miller, Jerry Smath (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780399555145

1. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Alan Gratz, Scholastic Press, $18.99, 9781338736076

2. The Prisoner’s Throne
Holly Black, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $20.99, 9780316592710

3. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203

4. Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464

5. Asgardians: Odin
George O’Connor, First Second, $12.99, 9781250760777

6. Where the Dark Stands Still
A.B. Poranek, Margaret K. McElderry Books, $19.99, 9781665936477

7. Nell of Gumbling: My Extremely Normal Fairy-Tale Life
Emma Steinkellner, Labyrinth Road, $13.99, 9780593570692

8. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884

9. Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250800848

10. A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272

1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet

3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion

4. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

5. Spiderwick Chronicles
Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

6. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion

7. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic

8. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Graphix

9. Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

10. Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin