Number One in Hardcover Fiction: The Correspondent: Virginia Evans, published by Crown.
Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,April 26, 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
- The Correspondent
Virginia Evans, Crown, $28, 9780593798430 - Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)
Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30, 9780593804216 - Go Gentle
Maria Semple, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $30, 9798217176632 - Transcription
Ben Lerner, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 9780374618599 - Heart the Lover
Lily King, Grove Press, $28, 9780802165176 - Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 9780374619237 - The Keeper
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493465 - Kin
Tayari Jones, Knopf, $32, 9780525659181 - American Fantasy
Emma Straub, Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217046850 - The Correspondent: Deluxe Edition
Virginia Evans, Crown, $35, 9798217398713 - The Night We Met (Indie Exclusive Edition)
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $30, 9781538780688 - Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ballantine Books, $30, 9780593158715 - Kill Dick
Luke Goebel, Red Hen Press, $26.95, 9781636284651 - Vigil
George Saunders, Random House, $28, 9780525509622 - The News from Dublin: Stories
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $29, 9781476785141
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35, 9780385548533 - Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30, 9780593733318 - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148 - Famesick: A Memoir
Lena Dunham, Random House, $32, 9780593129326 - Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
Gavin Newsom, Penguin Press, $30, 9781984881939 - A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, $32, 9781984881991 - Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
Alex Mayyasi, Hosts of NPR’s Planet Money, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324078777 - The Permission Mission: Reclaiming the Power to Trust Your Own Voice
Dr. Cindy McGovern, Ideapress Publishing, $28.95, 9781646872411 - Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism
Stewart Reynolds, Grand Central Publishing, $13, 9781538778005 - The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
Alice Hoffman (Ed.), Scribner, $22, 9781668209028 - Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture
Fab 5 Freddy, Viking, $32, 9780593834909 - Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences
Neal Allen, Anne Lamott, Avery, $27, 9798217046959 - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - The Beginning Comes After the End (Independent Bookstore Edition): Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit, Haymarket Books, $19.95, 9798888908785
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- Project Hail Mary (Movie Tie-In)
Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22, 9798217299461 - Theo of Golden
Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20, 9781668236512 - Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20, 9780593820254 - The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19, 9780593418925 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $20, 9780593685778 - The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali, Gallery Books, $18.99, 9781668036594 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $19.99, 9780063204164 - I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600 - Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $18, 9780593852347 - The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20, 9780593873465 - Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid, Carina Press, $18.99, 9781335534637 - Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell, Vintage, $19, 9781984898876 - The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $17.99, 9780060837020 - The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami, Vintage, $19, 9780593687840 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $22, 9780385348768 - Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21, 9780593689004 - The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Ina Garten, Crown, $22, 9780593800027 - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $22, 9781571313560 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, 9780060959470 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14, 9780804190114 - Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199 - I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy, Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781982185831 - Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $18, 9780394747231 - Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
Anton Jäger, Verso, $19.95, 9781836742074 - A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $22, 9781501183065 - Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik, Scribner, $20, 9781668065495 - The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079 - The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past
Nate DiMeo, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $23, 9780593446164
MASS MARKET
- 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451524935 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $9.99, 9780440180296 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - Hyperion
Dan Simmons, Spectra, $11, 9780553283686 - A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $8.95, 9780679755333 - Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849 - Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $12, 9780451526342
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- For the Fans! (KPop Demon Hunters): Official Storybook (Little Golden Book)
Golden Books (Illus.), Golden Books, $6.99, 9798217233977 - Decoy Saves Opening Day
Shohei Ohtani, Michael Blank, Fanny Liem (Illus.), HarperCollins, $21.99, 9780063460775 - Kitty Caterpillar
Annabeth Bondor-Stone, Connor White, Brigette Barrager (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $18.99, 9781250392893 - Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $21.99, 9780060254926 - Chirri & Chirra, Among the Cherry Blossoms
Kaya Doi, Enchanted Lion, $16.99, 9781592704828 - Mei Mei The Bunny
Laufey, Lauren O’Hara (Illus.), Penguin Workshop, $18.99, 9798217051748 - Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801 - Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks Touch-and-Trace
Richard Scarry, Random House Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9780593808337 - If We Were Dogs
Sophie Blackall, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780316581721 - Dream Animals
Emily Winfield Martin, Random House, $9.99, 9780553521900
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- The Escape Game
Marissa Meyer, Tamara Moss, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $22.99, 9798217006120 - Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Yearling, $11.99, 9780593809891 - Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga
Dav Pilkey, Motojiro (Illus.), Graphix, $14.99, 9781546151210 - A Fishboy Named…Sashimi
Dan Santat, Roaring Brook Press, $8.99, 9781250360007 - KPop Demon Hunters: The Movie in Comics: The Official Retelling in Comic Form
Random House Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9798217234301 - A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $9.99, 9780063415140 - The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures #2)
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809907 - James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780142410363 - The House Saphir
Marissa Meyer, Feiwel & Friends, $19.99, 9781250320957 - Troubling Tonsils! (Jasper Rabbit’s Creepy Tales!)
Aaron Reynolds, Peter Brown (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665961080
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams - Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press - Baby-Sitters Club Graphix
Ann M. Martin, Arley Nopra (Illus.), Graphix - Caraval
Stephanie Garber, Flatiron Books - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley - Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber, Flatiron Books - Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers
