Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

1. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
2. Audition
Katie Kitamura, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593852323
3. The Wedding People
Alison Espach, Henry Holt and Co., $28.99, 9781250899576
4. All Fours
Miranda July, Riverhead Books, $29, 9780593190265
5. Strangers in Time
David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, $30, 9781538742051
6. Say You’ll Remember Me
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $28, 9781538759196
7. Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf, $32, 9780593802724
8. The God of the Woods
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30, 9780593418918
9. Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374172
10. Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall, Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668078181
11. The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami, Pantheon, $29, 9780593317600
12. Onyx Storm (Standard Edition)
Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649377159
13. Easy to Slip
Cal Hoffman, Rare Bird Books, $28, 9781644284742
14. Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, Grove Press, $20, 9780802158741
15. Intermezzo
Sally Rooney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 9780374602635

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. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, Crash Course Books, $28, 9780525426059
3. Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi, Dey Street Books, $32.50, 9780063318915
4. Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781668023488
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad, Knopf, $28, 9780593804148
6. How to Work with Complicated People: Strategies for Effective Collaboration with (Nearly) Anyone
Ryan Leak, Maxwell Leadership, $29.95, 9798887100432
7. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
8. Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton, Pantheon, $27, 9780593701843
9. The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
Melinda French Gates, Flatiron Books, $25.99, 9781250378651
10. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis (Ed.), Riverhead Books, $30, 9798217047802
11. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books, $32.99, 9781250391230
12. The Tell: A Memoir
Amy Griffin, The Dial Press, $29, 9780593731208
13. How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
Yung Pueblo, Harmony, $27, 9780593582275
14. When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
Graydon Carter, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593655900
15. I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
Maria Shriver, The Open Field, $30, 9780593653395

 1. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Vintage, $18, 9780593685778
2. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, $21.99, 9780063251984
3. Orbital
Samantha Harvey, Grove Press, $17, 9780802163622
4. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780593597040
5. The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781668045152
6. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Penguin Books, $19, 9780593296394
7. Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, Vintage, $19, 9780593314487
8. Wild and Wrangled
Lyla Sage, Dial Press Trade Paperback, $17.99, 9780593732472
9. Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, Grand Central, $19.99, 9781538732182
10. The Husbands
Holly Gramazio, Vintage, $18, 9780593687512
11. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, Vintage, $19, 9780593466490
12. The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood, Anchor, $18, 9780525435006
13. I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books, $16.95, 9781945492600
14. Circe
Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $18.99, 9780316556323
15. A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707

 1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Crown, $12, 9780804190114
2. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $20, 9780143129257
3. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel, Vintage, $18, 9781984898456
4. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Vintage, $21, 9780307742490
5. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
6. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
David Lynch, Tarcher, $20, 9780143130147
7. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $36, 9780593536131
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon, Vintage, $20, 9780345806208
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374531386
10. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman, Picador, $19, 9781250849359
11. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199
12. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen, $12.95, 9781878424310
13. Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne, Ph.D., Simon & Schuster, $19.99, 9781668003190
14. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., Ballantine, $22, 9780345396815
15. The White Album: Essays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374532079

 1. Animal Farm
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451526342
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $10.99, 9780451524935
3. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
4. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little, Brown, $9.99, 9780316769488
5. Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Plata Publishing, $9.99, 9781612681139
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $10.99, 9780756404741
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou, Ballantine, $8.99, 9780345514400
8. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $8.99, 9780553577129
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
10. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233

 1. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden Books, $9.99, 9780307120007
2. Richard Scarry’s Bunnies
Richard Scarry, Golden Books, $6.99, 9780593899151
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
4. I Am a Bunny
Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden Books, $8.99, 9780375827785
5. The Octopus Escapes
Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970
6. Bluey: Easter
Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593658383
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
8. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780399230035
9. The Easter Bunny Hunt (Peter Rabbit)
Beatrix Potter, Warne, $9.99, 9780241716472
10. Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997

 1. The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier, Scott McCloud, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338777215
2. Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell, Ashley Mackenzie (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593809860
3. The New Girl: A Graphic Novel
Cassandra Calin, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338762457
4. Wings of Starlight
Allison Saft, Disney Press, $18.99, 9781368098458
5. Run Away With Me
Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, $24.99, 9781339035529
6. Our Infinite Fates (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Laura Steven, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250333889
7. The Giver
Lois Lowry, Clarion Books, $11.99, 9780544340688
8. A Wolf Called Fire
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illus.), Greenwillow Books, $18.99, 9780063415133
9. Rebellion 1776
Laurie Halse Anderson, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, $18.99, 9781416968269
10. James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $8.99, 9780142410363

 1. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press
2. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Harry N. Abrams
4. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes (Illus.), Scholastic
5. The Powerless Trilogy
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
6. The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey, Scholastic
7. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
8. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion
9. Warriors Graphic Novels
Erin Hunter, Natalie Riess (Illus.), Sara Goetter (Illus.), HarperAlley
10. InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second