Here Are Current Bestsellers at Southern California’s Independent Bookstores

1. Funny Story

Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282

2. James

Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369

3. Long Island

Colm Toibin, Scribner, $28, 9781476785110

4. Table for Two: Fictions

Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370

5. The Women

Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Press, $30, 9781250178633

6. The Paris Novel

Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302

7. The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251

8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946

9. Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619

10. The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28.99, 9781668045145

11. Real Americans

Rachel Khong, Knopf, $29, 9780593537251

12. Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157

13. Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange, Knopf, $29, 9780593318256

14. Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, $29.99, 9781649374042

15. Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922

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 Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886

3. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416

4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030

5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249

6. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Jen Psaki, Scribner, $28.99, 9781668019856

7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260

8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663

9. Coming Home

Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford, Knopf, $30, 9780593801345

10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764

11. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench, Brendan O’Hea, St. Martin’s Press, $32, 9781250325778

12. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

Emmanuel Acho, Noa Tishby, S&S/Simon Element, $27.99, 9781668057858

13. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher, Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982163891

14. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear, Avery, $27, 9780735211292

15. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman, Portfolio, $29, 9780735211735

1. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781451648225

2. A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569

3. The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030

4. This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune, Berkley, $19, 9780593638880

5. The Midnight Library

Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498

6. Rouge

Mona Awad, S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, $18.99, 9781982169701

7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933

8. Dune

Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593

9. A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575583

10. The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062315007

11. Happy Place

Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190

12. The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s Griffin, $17.99, 9781250080400

13. All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $18.99, 9781668017340

14. A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara, Anchor, $18, 9780804172707

15. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463

1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131

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

Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257

3. The Eater Guide to Los Angeles (Eater City Guide)

Eater, Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419765827

4. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017

Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651

5. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Penguin, $19, 9780143127741

6. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791

7. Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino, Harper Perennial, $21, 9780063112575

8. Just Kids

Patti Smith, Ecco, $18.99, 9780060936228

9. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan, Penguin, $19, 9780143109396

10. Born Limitless: Crush Limiting Beliefs, Cultivate an Infinite Mindset, and Unleash Your True Potential

Rick Torrison, Ethos Collective, $14.99, 9781636802022

11. Meditations: A New Translation

Marcus Aurelius, Modern Library, $11, 9780812968255

12. The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, Atria Books, $18.99, 9781668065969

13. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831

14. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Grand Central Publishing, $18.99, 9781538720363

15. Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale

Paul Yamazaki, Ode Books, $13.95, 9781958846698

1. Dune

Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340

2. Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233

3. Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541

4. Children of Dune

Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024

5. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

Oscar Wilde, Signet, $4.95, 9780451530455

6. The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129

7. 1984

George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935

8. The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $11.99, 9780765365279

9. Women Who Run With the Wolves

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ballantine, $9.99, 9780345409874

10. The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch, Spectra, $9.99, 9780553588941

1. Goodnight Moon

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

2. My Mom Is Magical!  

Sabrina Moyle, Eunice Moyle (Illus.), Harry N. Abrams, $8.99, 9781419729621

3. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography

Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718

4. I Love Grandma with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $9.99, 9780593523155

5. Bluey: Butterflies

Penguin Young Readers, $5.99, 9780593750889

6. ABCs of Love for Mom

Patricia Hegarty, Summer Macon (Illus.), Rodale Kids, $8.99, 9780593651926

7. Built to Last

Minh Lê, Dan Santat (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593569177

8. My Mum Is the Best by Bluey and Bingo

Penguin Young Readers Licenses, $9.99, 9780593519660

9. I Love My Mommy Because…

Laurel Porter Gaylord, Ashley Wolff (Illus.), Dutton, $7.99, 9780525472476

10. The Octopus Escapes

Maile Meloy, Felicita Sala (Illus.), G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, $9.99, 9780593533970

1. A First Time for Everything

Dan Santat, First Second, $14.99, 9781250851048

2. The One and Only Family

Katherine Applegate, Harper, $19.99, 9780063221123

3. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207

4. Powerful: A Powerless Story

Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9781665966306

5. Blood at the Root

LaDarrion Williams, Labyrinth Road, $20.99, 9780593711927

6. Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White, Harper, $10.99, 9780064400558

7. Heartless Hunter

Kristen Ciccarelli, Wednesday Books, $20, 9781250866905

8. If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489

9. Five Survive

Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191

10. National Geographic Kids Almanac 2025

National Geographic Kids, $15.99, 9781426376023

1. Dog Man

Dav Pilkey, Graphix 

2. Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels

Ann M. Martin, Katy Farina (Illus.), Graphix 

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney, Amulet 

4. Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Rick Riordan, Hyperion 

5. Keeper of the Lost Cities

Shannon Messenger, Aladdin 

6. Elephant & Piggie

Mo Willems, Hyperion 

7. Spy School

Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 

8. Magic Tree House

Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 

9. Dory Fantasmagory

Abby Hanlon, Puffin 

10. Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling, Scholastic