Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

1. The Disappearers

Marlon James, Riverhead Books, $32.00, 9780593717202

2. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce)

Caro Claire Burke, Knopf, $30.00, 9780593804216

3. Under Story

Chloe Benjamin, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $32.00, 9780593545218

4. The Knave and the Moon (The Stonewater Kingdom #2)

Rachel Gillig, Orbit, $30.00, 9780316601849

5. Whistler

Ann Patchett, Harper, $30.00, 9780063511637

6. Big Little Truths

Liane Moriarty, Crown, $34.00, 9780593798638

7. The Calamity Club

Kathryn Stockett, Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, 9781954118812

8. The Correspondent

Virginia Evans, Crown, $28.00, 9780593798430

9. Life of M

Rachel Cusk, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27.00, 9780374618384

10. Land

Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $32.00, 9780593320648

11. John of John

Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $28.00, 9780802167194

12. Agrippa

Robert Harris, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385552387

13. The Things We Never Say

Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $29.00, 9798217154746

14. Tear the City Down

Andre Hardy, Grand Central Publishing, $30.00, 9781538777480

15. Country People

Daniel Mason, Random House, $30.00, 9798217197453

1. The Land and Its People: Essays

David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company, $30.00, 9780316264839

2. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Belle Burden, The Dial Press, $30.00, 9780593733318

3. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, Scribner, $32.00, 9781668031575

4. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

Gil Durán, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00, 9781668221402

5. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

Patrick Radden Keefe, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385548533

6. The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living

Dara Horn, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, $30.00, 9781668090169

7. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

Jill Lepore, Liveright, $29.99, 9781324098423

8. Biological War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen, Dutton, $33.00, 9798217046034

9. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster, $34.00, 9781668067246

10. Guinness World Records 2027

Guinness World Records, Guinness World Records, $29.95, 9781806500253

11. The Little Frog’s Guide to Hope: Love, Wisdom and Affirmations for Tough Days from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog

Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837999088

12. The Little Frog’s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog

Maybell Eequay, Summersdale, $11.99, 9781837994731

13. Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

Katherine Rundell, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 9798217230747

14. Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and Life

David Booth, Authors Equity, $32.00, 9798893311952

15. This Is Me: A Reckoning

Hayden Panettiere, Grand Central Publishing, $30.00, 9781538773420

1. Theo of Golden

Allen Levi, Atria Books, $20.00, 9781668236512

2. East of Eden

John Steinbeck, Penguin, $25.00, 9780142004234

3. Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman, Ace, $20.00, 9780593820254

4. I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600

5. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)

Matt Dinniman, Ace, $21.00, 9780593820278

6. The Odyssey

Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250

7. Wild Dark Shore

Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250828019

8. The Wedding People

Alison Espach, Holt Paperbacks, $18.99, 9781250899552

9. Circe

Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $19.99, 9780316556323

10. Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir, Ballantine Books, $22.00, 9798217299461

11. The Road to Tender Hearts

Annie Hartnett, Ballantine Books, $20.00, 9780593873465

12. The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller, Ecco, $17.99, 9780062060624

13. The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007

14. Flesh

David Szalay, Scribner, $19.00, 9781982122805

15. The God of the Woods

Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $19.00, 9780593418925

1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

Emily Wilson, Liveright, $19.99, 9781324099406

2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060899226

3. A Marriage at Sea (Indies Introduce)

Sophie Elmhirst, Riverhead Books, $20.00, 9780593854297

4. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition

Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $24.00, 9780143129257

5. An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: Updated Sixth Edition

David Gebhard, et al., Angel City Press, $45.00, 9781626401167

6. Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were)

Eve Babitz, New York Review Books, $18.95, 9781681379593

7. Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton, Vintage, $21.00, 9780593689004

8. All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks, William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, 9780060959470

9. Golden State: The Making of California

Michael Hiltzik, Mariner Books, $21.99, 9780063450653

10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18.00, 9781984898456

11. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder, Crown, $14.00, 9780804190114

12. Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain, Ecco, $24.00, 9780063376502

13. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.00, 9780374531386

14. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

Morgan Housel, Harriman House, $19.99, 9780857197689

15. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Cory Doctorow, Picador, $20.00, 9781250448194

1. 1984

George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451524935

2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345514400

3. The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Signet, $9.99, 9780451530608

4. The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas, Bantam , $7.95, 9780553213508

5. Animal Farm

George Orwell, Signet, $12.00, 9780451526342

6. Mythology

Edith Hamilton, Grand Central, $10.99, 9780446574754

7. Dune

Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340

8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $9.99, 9780345391803

9. Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut, Dell, $10.99, 9780440180296

10. Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553208849

11. A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $12.00, 9780679755333

12. The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553577129

13. A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin, Random House Worlds, $9.99, 9780553593716

14. Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541

15. Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233

1. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)

Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419788109

2. Mexikid Dreams: A Graphic Memoir

Pedro Martín, Pedro Martín (Illus.), Dial Books, $14.99, 9798217002498

3. Guts: A Graphic Novel

Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500

4. A Fishboy Named…Sashimi

Dan Santat, Roaring Brook Press, $8.99, 9781250360007

5. A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272

6. Esperanza Rising

Pam Munoz Ryan, Scholastic, $7.99, 9780439120425

7. Absent

Rex Ogle, LJ-Baptiste (Illus.), Norton Young Readers, $17.99, 9781324124894

8. Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls, Yearling, $8.99, 9780440412670

9. Wombat Waiting

Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178

10. Have You Ever Seen a Ghost?

Daniel Kwan, Julia Pott, Sean Lewis (Illus.), Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665956925

11. Allergic: A Graphic Novel

Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338568905

12. Holes

Louis Sachar, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440228592

13. The Baby-sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-sitter Summer

Ann M. Martin, Becky Albertalli, Coe Booth, Scholastic Inc., $14.99, 9781546171379

14. Wonder

R.J. Palacio, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9781524720193

15. Cabin Head and Tree Head

Scott Campbell, Tundra Books, $9.99, 9781774885079

1. Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera

Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $24.99, 9798217124183

2. The Outsiders
3. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
4. The Gods Will Sing Our Song

Autumn Krause, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9798217027668

4. The Giver

Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544336261

5. Your Boyfriend Needs an Exorcist

Justine Pucella Winans, Bloomsbury YA, $20.99, 9781547618811

6. The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel

Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, $19.99, 9780763642686

7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Special Edition)

Stephen Chbosky, Simon Pulse, $15.99, 9781665982412

8. Fake Skating

Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 9781665921275

9. Palestine: A Primer

Rashid Khalidi, Godwin Books, $25.99, 9781250376060

10. The Heart Trials
11. Elle, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9798217238224
12. A Study in Drowning

Ava Reid, HarperCollins, $15.99, 9780063211513

12. What Happened to Those Girls

Carlyn Greenwald, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781464226571

13. Looking for Alaska

John Green, Penguin Books, $12.99, 9780593109069

14. The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9780316593083

15. Ghosted

Wendelin Van Draanen, Holiday House, $19.99, 9780823460397

1. The Skeleton and the Cat

Brandon James Scott, HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063455887

2. Dragon Dog

Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $18.99, 9798217223718

3. Goodnight Moon

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

4. The Beginner’s Guide to Being a Wizard (Beginner’s Guide, The)

Keith Negley, Keith Negley (Illus.), Flamingo Books, $18.99, 9798217318568

5. The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein, Harper, $19.99, 9780060256654

6. The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780061074295

7. Fall Days with Frog and Toad

Arnold Lobel, Arnold Lobel (Illus.), HarperCollins, $9.99, 9780063495982

8. Bluey’s Heelerween

Jessica Magro, Penguin Young Readers Licenses, $9.99, 9798217244867

9. Time for Bed

Mem Fox, Jane Dyer (Illus.), Clarion Books, $9.99, 9780152010669

10. Maybe

Kobi Yamada, Gabriella Barouch (Illus.), Compendium, $18.95, 9781946873750

11. Good Night, Gorilla

Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780399230035

12. Little Blue Truck Lost and Found

Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063436121

13. Millie Fleur’s Pumpkin Problem

Christy Mandin, Christy Mandin (Illus.), Orchard Books, $14.99, 9798225041335

14. I Am a Bunny

Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $8.99, 9780375827785

15. Trash Truck

Max Keane, Harper, $9.99, 9780063344273

1. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series)

Jeff Kinney, Amulet Books, $15.99, 9781419788109

2. Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera

Erin A. Craig, Delacorte Press, $24.99, 9798217124183

3. Guts: A Graphic Novel

Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500

4. Mexikid Dreams: A Graphic Memoir

Pedro Martín, Pedro Martín (Illus.), Dial Books, $14.99, 9798217002498

5. The Outsiders
6. E. Hinton, Viking Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780142407332
7. The Gods Will Sing Our Song

Autumn Krause, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9798217027668

7. A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $8.99, 9781250153272

8. A Fishboy Named…Sashimi

Dan Santat, Roaring Brook Press, $8.99, 9781250360007

9. Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls, Yearling, $8.99, 9780440412670

10. Have You Ever Seen a Ghost?

Daniel Kwan, Julia Pott, Sean Lewis (Illus.), Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665956925

11. Your Boyfriend Needs an Exorcist

Justine Pucella Winans, Bloomsbury YA, $20.99, 9781547618811

12. Allergic: A Graphic Novel

Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338568905

13. Absent

Rex Ogle, LJ-Baptiste (Illus.), Norton Young Readers, $17.99, 9781324124894

14. Holes

Louis Sachar, Laurel Leaf, $8.99, 9780440228592

15. Wombat Waiting

Katherine Applegate, Storytide, $19.99, 9780063221178