Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,June 9, 2024. 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 Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633 - Eruption
Michael Crichton, James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316565073 - Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370 - Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282 - All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265 - James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369 - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946 - The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302 - Camino Ghosts
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545990 - The Comfort of Ghosts
Jacqueline Winspear, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641296069 - Long Island
Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $28, 9781476785110 - Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619 - Lies and Weddings
Kevin Kwan, Doubleday, $29, 9780385546294 - You Like It Darker: Stories
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668037713 - The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
- The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744 - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886 - An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663 - In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Sebastian Junger, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781668050835 - Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Kathleen Hanna, Ecco, $29.99, 9780062825230 - What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Bill Maher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668051351 - The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764 - Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
Carrie Courogen, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250279224 - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260 - Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249 - A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $32.50, 9781501183058 - Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
Serj Tankian, Hachette Books, $30, 9780306831928 - The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, Harper, $29.99, 9780063073852 - Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
Paul Haddad, Santa Monica Press, $29.95, 9781595801272
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569 - Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324 - Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593 - Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190 - The Guest
Emma Cline, Random House, $18, 9780812988031 - The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498 - The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703 - Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374529949 - A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707 - Summer Romance
Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $19, 9780593714089 - Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead, Vintage, $18, 9780525567288 - A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575606 - Horse
Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976 - The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651 - All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131 - Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791 - Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza, Hogarth, $18, 9780593244111 - Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741 - Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17, 9780593315200 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386 - The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431 - World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767 - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, Random House, $20, 9780593133255 - Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088 - The Eater Guide to Los Angeles (Eater City Guide)
Eater, Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419765827 - What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $19, 9780593298909
MASS MARKET
- The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129 - Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296 - The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553588941 - 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935 - Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233 - Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340 - Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541 - Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803 - Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274 - I Love Dad With the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $9.99, 9781524785895 - Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617 - My Dad Is Awesome by Bluey and Bingo
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, $9.99, 9780593519653 - Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071 - Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035 - A Day at the Beach with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $7.99, 9780593750650 - My Dad Is Amazing!
Sabrina Moyle, Eunice Moyle (Illus.), Abrams, $8.99, 9781419729614 - All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781481431217 - Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Mo Willems, Hyperion, $17.99, 9780786819881
CHILDREN'S INTEREST
- If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489 - Hatchet
Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293 - The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203 - The One and Only Family
Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123 - Cloud Puppy
Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127 - The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $16.99, 9781338839999 - The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533253 - The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457 - Hoops: A Graphic Novel
Matt Tavares, Candlewick, $12.99, 9781536231953 - Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191
CHILDREN'S SERIES
- Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet - Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.), Graphix - Charlie Thorne
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic - Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion - Who Was/Is…?
Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop - Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson, Ember