The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List, as brought to you by IndieBound and CALIBA, for the 
sales week ended Sunday, April 28, 2024. 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. Funny Story
Emily Henry, Berkley, $29, 9780593441282
2. James
Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28, 9780385550369
3. The Women
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's Press, $30, 9781250178633
4. Table for Two: Fictions
Amor Towles, Viking, $32, 9780593296370
5. The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884251
6. The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl, Random House, $29, 9780812996302
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, Riverhead Books, $28, 9780593422946
8. Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar, Knopf, $28, 9780593537619
9. North Woods
Daniel Mason, Random House, $28, 9780593597033
10. Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, Knopf, $29, 9780593318256
11. Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, Ecco, $29.99, 9780063204157
12. Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $32.50, 9780063251922
13. Until August
Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (Transl.), Knopf, $22, 9780593801994
14. Death Valley
Melissa Broder, Scribner, $27, 9781668024843
15. The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin, Penguin Press, $32, 9780593652886
2. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon & Schuster, $35, 9781982108663
3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental 
Illness
Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Press, $30, 9780593655030
4. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie, Random House, $28, 9780593730249
5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $22, 9780593714416
6. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea, St. Martin's Press, $32, 9781250325778
7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, Doubleday, $35, 9780385544764
8. The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Adam Moss, Penguin Press, $45, 9780593297582
9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann, Doubleday, $30, 9780385534260
10. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $28.99, 9781668007976
11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, Random House, $32, 9780593448793
12. Our Fight: A Memoir
Ronda Rousey, Grand Central Publishing, $29, 9781538757376
13. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Fareed Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company, $29.99, 9780393239232
14. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581
15. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant, Viking, $32, 9780593653142
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas, Bloomsbury Publishing, $19, 9781635575569
2. Big Swiss
Jen Beagin, Scribner, $17, 9781982153090
3. The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Transl.), Tor, $18.99, 9780765382030
4. Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18, 9780374529949
5. Just for the Summer
Abby Jimenez, Forever, $17.99, 9781538704431
6. Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18, 9780399590962
7. Beach Read
Emily Henry, Berkley, $16, 9781984806734
8. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $18, 9780441013593
9. The Midnight Library
Matt Haig, Penguin, $18, 9780525559498
10. Trust
Hernan Diaz, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780593420324
11. How to End a Love Story
Yulin Kuang, Avon, $18.99, 9780063310681
12. Happy Place
Emily Henry, Berkley, $19, 9780593441190
13. Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin, Vintage, $16, 9780345806567
14. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atria, $17, 9781501161933
15. Stone Cold Fox
Rachel Koller Croft, Berkley, $18, 9780593547519
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan, Knopf, $35, 9780593536131
2. All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks, Morrow, $16.99, 9780060959470
3. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Rosecrans Baldwin, Picador, $19, 9781250849199
4. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann, Vintage, $18, 9780593470831
5. The Eater Guide to Los Angeles (Eater City Guide)
Eater, Abrams Image, $19.99, 9781419765827
6. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan Books, $19.99, 9781250787651
7. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner, Vintage, $17, 9781984898951
8. The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Julia Cameron, TarcherPerigee, $19, 9780143129257
9. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton, Harper Perennial, $18.99, 9780062968791
10. Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond, Crown, $20, 9780593239933
11. A Book of Days
Patti Smith, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $20, 9780593730386
12. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis)
Mike Davis, Verso, $21.95, 9781786635891
13. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571313560
14. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen, Penguin Books, $20, 9780143132899
15. The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, Vintage, $17, 9781400078431
 
MASS MARKET 
1. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99, 9780593640340
2. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
3. Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780593098233
4. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson, Tor, $10.99, 9781250318541
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, Del Rey, $8.99, 9780345391803
6. A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry, Vintage, $8.95, 9780679755333
7. Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $9.99, 9780440180296
8. Children of Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441104024
9. The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, Bantam, $7.99, 9780553577129
10. American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $9.99, 9780062572110

CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story
George Takei, Michelle Lee (Illus.), Crown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780593566350
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, World of Eric Carle, $10.99, 9780399226908
3. Grumpy Monkey
Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illus.), Random House Studio, $8.99, 9780593123997
4. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
Wendy Loggia, Elisa Chavarri (Illus.), Golden Books, $5.99, 9780593566718
5. Dragons Love Tacos
Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illus.), Dial Books, $18.99, 9780803736801
6. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $10.99, 9780694003617
7. Big
Vashti Harrison, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9780316353229
8. Imagine You and Me
Benson Shum, Dial Books, $18.99, 9780593617069
9. Roy Is Not a Dog
Esmé Shapiro, Daniel Newell Kaufman, Tundra Books, $18.99, 9780735265967
10. Anzu the Great Kaiju
Benson Shum, Roaring Brook Press, $18.99, 9781250776129
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson, Delacorte Press, $20.99, 9780593374207
2. If Only I Had Told Her
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $12.99, 9781728276229
3. Five Survive
Holly Jackson, Ember, $14.99, 9780593374191
4. If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin, Sourcebooks Fire, $10.99, 9781728205489
5. The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Knopf Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781524764203
6. Mexikid
Pedro Martín, Dial Books, $14.99, 9780593462294
7. Holes
Louis Sachar, Yearling, $6.99, 9780440419464
8. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
Chanel Miller, Philomel Books, $17.99, 9780593624524
9. Powerless
Lauren Roberts, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99, 9781665954884
10. Rainbow! Volume 1 (Original Graphic Novel)
Sunny, Gloomy (Illus.), Graphix, $16.99, 9781339011233
 
CHILDREN'S SERIES 
1. Dog Man
Dav Pilkey, Graphix 
2. Charlie Thorne
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
3. InvestiGators
John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, Pat Lewis (Illus.), First Second 
4. Spy School
Stuart Gibbs, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney 
6. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan, Hyperion 
7. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House Books for Young Readers 
8. Mercy Watson
Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.), Candlewick 
9. I Survived
Lauren Tarshis, Brian Churilla (Illus.), Scholastic 
10. Wild Robot
Peter Brown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers