This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended March 24 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
2. James, Percival Everett
3. The Hunter: Tana French
4. Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange
5. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride
6. Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
7. North Woods: Daniel Mason
8. Expiration Dates, Rebecca Serle
9. The Bee Sting: Paul Murray
10. Good Material, Dolly Alderton
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin
2. The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir, RuPaul
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
4. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks
5. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, Ed Zwick
6. Now, Near, Next: A Practical Guide for Mid-Career Women to Move from Professional Serendipity to Intentional Advancement, Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer, Kimberly K. Rath
7. Grief Is for People: Sloane Crosley
8. Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, Leslie Jamison
9. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See, Bianca Bosker
10. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, Kara Swisher
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Dune, Frank Herbert
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas,
3. Happy Place, Emily Henry
4. Horse, Geraldine Brooks
5. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
6. Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson
7. Trust, Hernan Diaz
8. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
9. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks,
2. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.,
3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, Michelle Zauner
4. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir, Dolly Alderton
5. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, Nina Totenberg
6. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann
7. Novelist as a Vocation, Haruki Murakami
8. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017, Rashid Khalidi
9. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, Don Miguel Ruiz, Amber-Allen
10. Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, Laurence Leamer