Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

1. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370

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

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

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

5. City in Ruins
Don Winslow, William Morrow, $32, 9780063079472

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

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

8. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, $29, 9780385547345

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

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

11. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xochitl Gonzalez, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250786210

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

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

14. Good Material
Dolly Alderton, Knopf, $28, 9780593801307

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

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

2. Think This, Not That: 12 Mindshifts to Breakthrough Limiting Beliefs and Become Who You Were Born to Be
Josh Axe, Thomas Nelson, $29.99, 9781400337842

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

4. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Kara Swisher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982163891

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

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

7. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
Ed Zwick, Gallery Books, $28.99, 9781668046999

8. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
James Kaplan, Penguin Press, $35, 9780525561002

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

10. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581

11. Be One: How to Be a Healthy Man in Toxic Times
Jimmy Rex, Wiley, $28, 9781394229123

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

13. The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
RuPaul, Dey Street Books, $29.99, 9780063263901

14. The Cook Book of All Time: Recipes, Stories, and Cooking Advice from a Neighborhood Restaurant
Ashley Bernee Wells, Tyler Jeremy Wells, Harvest, $45, 9780063299931

15. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia, M.D., Bill Gifford, Harmony, $32, 9780593236598

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

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

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

4. A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583

5. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431

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

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

8. Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton, Picador, $19, 9781250321718

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

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

11. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323

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

13. Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin, Vintage, $16, 9780345806567

14. A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, Anchor, $18, 9780307477477

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

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

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

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

4. The Eater Guide to Los Angeles
Eater, Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419765827

5. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine, Rachel Heller, TarcherPerigee, $17, 9781585429134

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

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

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

9. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310

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

11. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560

12. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228

13. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger, $18.95, 9781572245372

14. Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17, 9780593315200

15. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933

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

2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

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

4. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342

5. The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279

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

7. The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Bantam, $6.95, 9780553213508

8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803

9. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024

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

1. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Abrams Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781419768774

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

3. Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071

4. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926

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

6. It’s Passover, Grover!
Jodie Shepherd, Joe Mathieu (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers, $7.99, 9780525647225

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

8. Bluey: Queens
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750872

9. Little Blue Truck Feeling Happy
Alice Schertle, Clarion Books, $14.99, 9780063342705

10. Belly Button Book!
Sandra Boynton, Boynton Bookworks, $7.99, 9781665925051

1. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207

2. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801897

3. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489

4. Free Period
Ali Terese, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 9781338835830

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

6. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544340688

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

8. Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze
Maple Lam, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9780593524640

9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky, MTV Books, $15.99, 9781451696196

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

1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet

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

4. I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Scholastic

5. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic

6. Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix

7. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion

8. Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi, Graphix

9. Dragon Masters
Tracey West, Graham Howells (Illus.), Scholastic

10. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic