Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

Published on Jun 17, 2024

Number One in Hardcover Fiction The Women:,by Kristin Hannah, published by St. Martin’s Press.

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

  1. The Women
    Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633
  2. Eruption
    Michael Crichton, James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316565073
  3. Table for Two: Fictions
    Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
  4. Funny Story
    Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
  5. All Fours
    Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
  6. James
    Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
  7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
    James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
  8. The Paris Novel
    Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302
  9. Camino Ghosts
    John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545990
  10. The Comfort of Ghosts
    Jacqueline Winspear, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641296069
  11. Long Island
    Colm Tóibín, Scribner, $28, 9781476785110
  12. Martyr!
    Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
  13. Lies and Weddings
    Kevin Kwan, Doubleday, $29, 9780385546294
  14. You Like It Darker: Stories
    Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668037713
  15. The Ministry of Time
    Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
    Erik Larson, Crown, $35, 9780385348744
  2. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
  3. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
    Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
  4. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
    Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
  5. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
    Sebastian Junger, Simon & Schuster, $27.99, 9781668050835
  6. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
    Kathleen Hanna, Ecco, $29.99, 9780062825230
  7. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
    Bill Maher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668051351
  8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
    Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
  9. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
    Carrie Courogen, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250279224
  10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
  11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
    Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249
  12. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
    Kevin Fedarko, Scribner, $32.50, 9781501183058
  13. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
    Serj Tankian, Hachette Books, $30, 9780306831928
  14. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
    Zoë Schlanger, Harper, $29.99, 9780063073852
  15. Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
    Paul Haddad, Santa Monica Press, $29.95, 9781595801272

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

  1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
    Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
  2. Trust
    Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
  3. Just for the Summer
    Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
  4. Dune
    Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
  5. Happy Place
    Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
  6. The Guest
    Emma Cline, Random House, $18, 9780812988031
  7. The Midnight Library
    Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
  8. The Silent Patient
    Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
  9. Play It As It Lays
    Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374529949
  10. A Little Life
    Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707
  11. Summer Romance
    Annabel Monaghan, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $19, 9780593714089
  12. Crook Manifesto
    Colson Whitehead, Vintage, $18, 9780525567288
  13. A Court of Wings and Ruin
    Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575606
  14. Horse
    Geraldine Brooks, Penguin, $19, 9780399562976
  15. The Thursday Murder Club
    Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

  1. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
    Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
  2. All About Love: New Visions
    bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
  3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
    Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
  4. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
    Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
  5. Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
    Cristina Rivera Garza, Hogarth, $18, 9780593244111
  6. Just Kids
    Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228
  7. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
    Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741
  8. Stay True: A Memoir
    Hua Hsu, Anchor, $17, 9780593315200
  9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
  10. The Year of Magical Thinking
    Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431
  11. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
    Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $22, 9780062802767
  12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
    Ed Yong, Random House, $20, 9780593133255
  13. Solito: A Memoir
    Javier Zamora, Hogarth, $18, 9780593498088
  14. The Eater Guide to Los Angeles (Eater City Guide)
    Eater, Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419765827
  15. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
    Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin, $19, 9780593298909

MASS MARKET

  1. The Diary of a Young Girl
    Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
  2. Slaughterhouse-Five
    Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
  3. The Lies of Locke Lamora
    Scott Lynch, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553588941
  4. 1984
    George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
  5. Dune Messiah
    Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
  6. Dune
    Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
  7. Mistborn: The Final Empire
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
  8. Children of Dune
    Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
  9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
  10. Lord of the Flies
    William Golding, Penguin, $12, 9780399501487

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

  1. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    Dr. Seuss, Random House Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780679805274
  2. I Love Dad With the Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $9.99, 9781524785895
  3. Goodnight Moon
    Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
  4. My Dad Is Awesome by Bluey and Bingo
    Penguin Young Readers Licenses, $9.99, 9780593519653
  5. Madeline
    Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, $9.99, 9780670014071
  6. Good Night, Gorilla
    Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
  7. A Day at the Beach with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
    Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $7.99, 9780593750650
  8. My Dad Is Amazing!
    Sabrina Moyle, Eunice Moyle (Illus.), Abrams, $8.99, 9781419729614
  9. All the World
    Liz Garton Scanlon, Marla Frazee (Illus.), Little Simon, $7.99, 9781481431217
  10. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
    Mo Willems, Hyperion, $17.99, 9780786819881

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

  1. If He Had Been with Me
    Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
  2. Hatchet
    Gary Paulsen, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9781481486293
  3. The Eyes and the Impossible
    Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
  4. The One and Only Family
    Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123
  5. Cloud Puppy
    Kelly Leigh Miller, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $12.99, 9781665932127
  6. The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
    Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $16.99, 9781338839999
  7. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
    Beth Lincoln, Claire Powell (Illus.), Dutton Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533253
  8. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
    Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
  9. Hoops: A Graphic Novel
    Matt Tavares, Candlewick, $12.99, 9781536231953
  10. Five Survive
    Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191

CHILDREN'S SERIES

  1. Dog Man
    Dav Pilkey, Graphix
  2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Jeff Kinney, Amulet
  3. Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels
    Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.), Graphix
  4. Charlie Thorne
    Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  5. The Hunger Games
    Suzanne Collins, Scholastic
  6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
    Rick Riordan, Hyperion
  7. Who Was/Is…?
    Kirsten Anderson, Gregory Copeland (Illus.), Penguin Workshop
  8. Spy School
    Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  9. Wild Robot
    Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  10. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
    Holly Jackson, Ember

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