Here Are the Current Bestsellers at Southern California Independent Bookstores

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

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

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

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

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

6. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. Now, Near, Next: A Practical Guide for Mid-Career Women to Move from Professional Serendipity to Intentional Advancement
Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer, Kimberly K. Rath, Amplify Publishing, $28, 9781637558935

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

8. Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
Leslie Jamison, Little, Brown and Company, $29, 978031637488

9. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
Bianca Bosker, Viking, $29, 9780525562207

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

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

12. One Way Back: A Memoir
Christine Blasey Ford, St. Martin’s Press, $29, 9781250289650

13.On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good*
Elise Loehnen, Dial Press, $28, 9780593243039

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

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

1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780593438374

2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 978163557556

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

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

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

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

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

8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933

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

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

11. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707

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

13. Bride
Ali Hazelwood, Berkley, $19, 9780593550403

14. Weyward
Emilia Hart, St. Martin’s Griffin, $19, 978125084272

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
Laurence Leamer, Putnam, $20, 978059332810

11. How We Live Is How We Die
Pema Chödrön, Shambhala, $21.95, 9781645472407

12. How to Love (Mindfulness Essentials #3)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.), Parallax Press, $9.95, 9781937006884

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

14. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $20, 9780593133255

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062836977

7. Small Gods
Terry Pratchett, Harper, $9.99, 9780062237378

8. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

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

10. Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bantam Classics, $7.95, 9780553211757

1. Bluey: Hooray, It’s Easter!
Penguin Young Readers, $9.99, 978059375084

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

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

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

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

6. Grumpy Monkey Spring Fever
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $11.99, 9780593652336

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

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

9. Easter Egg Countdown (Pat the Bunny)
Gillian Flint (Illus.), Golden Books, $9.99, 9780593426852

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

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

2. Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338801903

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

4. Coraline
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper, $9.99, 9780380807345

5. Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 978133880189

6. The Eyes and the Impossible (Deluxe Wood-Bound Edition)
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), McSweeney’s, $28, 978195211945

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

8. Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross, Wednesday Books, $18.99, 9781250857439

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

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

<strong>1. Dog Man</strong>
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

<strong>2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid</strong>
Jeff Kinney, Amulet

<strong>3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians</strong>
Rick Riordan, Hyperion

<strong>4. Keeper of the Lost Cities</strong>
Shannon Messenger, Aladdin

<strong>5.Spy School</strong>
Stuart Gibbs, Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers

<strong>6. Elephant &amp; Piggie</strong>
Mo Willems, Hyperion

<strong>7. Cat Kid Comic Club</strong>
Dav Pilkey, Graphix

<strong>8. Wings of Fire</strong>
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic

<strong>9. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder</strong>
Holly Jackson, Ember

<strong>10. Wild Robot</strong>
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers