The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended March 6 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 Paris Apartment: Lucy Foley
2. The Lincoln Highway: Amor Towles
3. One Italian Summer: Rebecca Serle
4. Violeta: Isabel Allende
5. The Unsinkable Greta James: Jennifer E. Smith
6. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
7. Call Us What We Carry: Poems: Amanda Gorman
8. The Swimmers: Julie Otsuka
9. A Thousand Steps: T.Jefferson Parker
10. The Maid: Nita Prose
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience: Brené Brown
2. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
3. Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey
4. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now: Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, Philip Wang
5. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
6. Taste: My Life Through Food: Stanley Tucci
7. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir: Bob Odenkirk
8. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story: Michael Lewis
9. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question: Michael Schur
10. The Way Forward: Master Life’s Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy: Robert O’Neill, Dakota Meyer
MASS MARKET
1. The Ruin of Kings: Jenn Lyons
2. Killing Floor: Lee Child
3. Lord of the Flies: William Golding
4. Oathbringer: Brandon Sanderson
5. The English Girl: Daniel Silva
6. To Build a Fire and Other Stories: Jack London
7. Near Dark: Brad Thor
8. Light It Up: Nick Petrie
9. 1984: George Orwell
10. Doctor Sleep: Stephen King
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Thursday Murder Club: Richard Osman
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. The House in the Cerulean Sea: TJ Klune
5. The Vanishing Half: Brit Bennett
6. Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
7. Fresh Water for Flowers: Valérie Perrin
8. The Anomaly: Hervé Le Tellier
9. Play It As It Lays: Joan Didion
10. The Lost Apothecary: Sarah Penner
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