Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

Published on Apr 14, 2025

Number One in Hardcover Fiction Say You’ll Remember Me:,by Abby Jimenez,
published by Forever.

Here is the SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, brought to you by IndieBound and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, for the sales week ending Sunday,March 30, 2025. 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. Say You’ll Remember Me
    Abby Jimenez, Forever, $28, 9781538759196

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

  3. The God of the Woods
    Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918

  4. All Fours
    Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265

  5. Deep Cuts
    Holly Brickley, Crown, $28, 9780593799086

  6. Dream Count
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724

  7. Broken Country
    Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181

  8. Playground
    Richard Powers, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9781324086031

  9. The Dream Hotel
    Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600

  10. The Antidote
    Karen Russell, Knopf, $30, 9780593802250

  11. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
    Stephen Graham Jones, S&S/Saga Press, $29.99, 9781668075081

  12. Heartwood
    Amity Gaige, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668063606

  13. The Story She Left Behind
    Patti Callahan Henry, Atria Books, $29.99, 9781668011874

  14. The Wedding People
    Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576

  15. A Drop of Corruption
    Robert Jackson Bennett, Del Rey, $30, 9780593723821

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

  1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
    Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House LLC, $29.99, 9781401971366

  2. Abundance
    Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488

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

  4. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
    John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059

  5. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
    Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802

  6. When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
    Graydon Carter, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593655900

  7. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
    Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230

  8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
    Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148

  9. How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
    Yung Pueblo, Harmony, $27, 9780593582275

  10. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
    Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne (Illus.), Scribner, $20, 9781668072240

  11. The Tell: A Memoir
    Amy Griffin, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593731208

  12. Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech
    Maureen Dowd, Harper, $32.50, 9780063392229

  13. Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
    Elaine Pagels, Doubleday, $30, 9780385547468

  14. I’ll Have What She’s Having
    Chelsea Handler, The Dial Press, $32, 9780593596579

  15. I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
    Maria Shriver, The Open Field, $30, 9780593653395

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

  1. Martyr!
    Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778

  2. Parable of the Sower
    Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182

  3. Orbital
    Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622

  4. North Woods
    Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040

  5. I Who Have Never Known Men
    Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600

  6. Funny Story
    Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441213

  7. The Ministry of Time
    Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152

  8. Demon Copperhead
    Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984

  9. Yellowface
    R. F. Kuang, William Morrow Paperbacks, $18.99, 9780063250857

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

  11. Fourth Wing
    Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $20.99, 9781649377371

  12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490

  13. The Housemaid
    Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570

  14. Project Hail Mary
    Andy Weir, Ballantine, $20, 9780593135228

  15. The Vegetarian
    Han Kang, Hogarth, $18, 9781101906118

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION

  1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
    Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114

  2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
    Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131

  3. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
    Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257

  4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490

  5. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
    Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208

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

  7. The Many Lives of Mama Love: Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
    Lara Love Hardin, Simon & Schuster, $17.99, 9781982197674

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

  9. The White Album: Essays
    Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079

  10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456

  11. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386

  12. The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook
    Andre Balazs (Ed.), Rizzoli Universe, $39.95, 9780789324641

  13. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
    James Kaplan, Penguin Books, $20, 9780525561026

  14. How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
    Safiya Sinclair, 37 Ink, $18.99, 9781982132347

  15. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont
    Shawn Levy, Anchor, $18, 9780525435662

MASS MARKET

  1. 1984
    George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935

  2. The Diary of a Young Girl
    Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129

  3. The Way of Kings
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365279

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

  5. Dune
    Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340

  6. Words of Radiance
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $12.99, 9780765365286

  7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803

  8. Jurassic Park
    Michael Crichton, Ballantine, $10.99, 9780345538987

  9. Animal Farm
    George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342

  10. Arcanum Unbounded
    Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765391186

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED

  1. Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day
    Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $12.99, 9780593709313

  2. The Runaway Bunny
    Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780061074295

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

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

  5. Little Blue Truck and Racer Red
    Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Clarion Books, $19.99, 9780063387843

  6. Dragon’s First Taco
    Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $8.99, 9780593533178

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

  8. I Am Elphaba (Little Golden Book)
    Mary Man-Kong, Elsa Chang (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593896860

  9. The Giving Tree
    Shel Silverstein, Harper, $19.99, 9780060256654

  10. Hot Dog
    Doug Salati, Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593308431

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

  1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
    Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215

  2. A Song for You and I: A Graphic Novel
    K. O’Neill, Random House Graphic, $13.99, 9780593182307

  3. Words with Wings and Magic Things
    Matthew Burgess, Doug Salati (Illus.), Tundra Books, $19.99, 9781774880289

  4. Impossible Creatures
    Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860

  5. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
    Kelly Barnhill, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $10.99, 9781616207465

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

  7. The Eyes and the Impossible
    Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Yearling, $14.99, 9781524764234

  8. All Better Now
    Neal Shusterman, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $21.99, 9781534432758

  9. Youth Group
    Jordan Morris, Bowen McCurdy (Illus.), First Second, $17.99, 9781250789235

  10. How to Talk to Your Succulent
    Zoe Persico, Tundra Books, $13.99, 9781774883143

CHILDREN'S SERIES

  1. The Hunger Games
    Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press

  2. Dog Man
    Dav Pilkey, Graphix

  3. The Wild Robot
    Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

  4. The Princess in Black
    Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), Candlewick

  5. InvestiGators
    John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second

  6. Dragon Masters
    Tracey West, Matt Loveridge (Illus.), Scholastic

  7. Spy School
    Stuart Gibbs, Anjan Sarkar (Illus.), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

  8. Wings of Fire
    Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic

  9. Elephant & Piggie
    Mo Willems, Hyperion

  10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams

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