Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

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

2. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada Limón (Ed.), Milkweed Editions, $25, 9781571315687

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

15. A Fate Inked in Blood
Danielle L. Jensen, Del Rey, $29.99, 9780593599839

1. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416

2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764

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

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

5. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976

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

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

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

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

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

11. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668003183

12. The Innovative Seller: Keeping Pace in an AI and Customer-Centric World
Jake Dunlap, Wiley, $28, 9781394180240

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

14. Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Norman Ohler, Mariner Books, $29.99, 9780358646501

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Bunny
Mona Awad, Penguin, $17, 9780525559757

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

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

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

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

12. The Secret History
Donna Tartt, Vintage, $18, 9781400031702

13. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063279032

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

15. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, Penguin, $18, 9780143110439

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

2. The Eater Guide to Los Angeles
Eater, Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419765827

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
Laurence Leamer, Putnam, $20, 9780593328101

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

15. Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $17, 9781101974537

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

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

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

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

5. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488

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

7. Carrie
Stephen King, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307743664

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $19.99, 9781419768774

7. All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781481431217

8. Big
Vashti Harrison, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316353229

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

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

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

2. On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories
Chris Baron (Ed.), Joshua S. Levy (Ed.), Naomi Milliner (Ed.), Shannon Hochman (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $18.99, 9781419767296

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

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

5. Ferris
Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick, $18.99, 9781536231052

6. Finally Heard
Kelly Yang, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9781665947930

7. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191

8. A Tempest of Tea
Hafsah Faizal, Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, $20.99, 9780374389406

9. Bridge to Bat City
Ernest Cline, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9780316460583

10. The Night War
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Dial Books, $17.99, 9780735228566

1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet

3. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic

4. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

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

6. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic

7. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion

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

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

10. Front Desk
Kelly Yang, Scholastic