The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended March 13 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. Run, Rose, Run: James Patterson, Dolly Parton
3. Cloud Cuckoo Land: Anthony Doerr
4. Call Us What We Carry: Poems: Amanda Gorman
5. The Lincoln Highway: Amor Towles
6. One Italian Summer: Rebecca Serle
7. A Thousand Steps: T.Jefferson Parker
8. Violeta: Isabel Allende
9. Malibu Rising: Taylor Jenkins Reid
10. The Stranger in the Lifeboat: Mitch Albom
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner
2. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience: Brené Brown
3. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss: Amy Bloom
4. The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found: Frank Bruni
5. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James Clear
6. Taste: My Life Through Food: Stanley Tucci
7. And the Category Is: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community: Ricky Tucker
8. Nina Simone’s Gum: Warren Ellis
9. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet: Leah Thomas
10. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy: Nathaniel Philbrick
MASS MARKET
1. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
3. Sooley: John Grisham
4. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson
5. The Ruin of Kings: Jenn Lyons
6. Neuromancer: William Gibson
7. Dune: Frank Herbert
8. Hounded: Kevin Hearne
9. A Time for Mercy: John Grisham
10. Just a Heartbeat Away: Cara Bastone
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
3. Play It As It Lays: Joan Didion
4. Pachinko: Min Jin Lee
5. Daisy Jones & The Six: Taylor Jenkins Reid
6. Circe: Madeline Miller
7. The Anomaly: Hervé Le Tellier
8. Dune: Frank Herbert
9. No One Is Talking About This: Patricia Lockwood
10. The Starless Sea: Erin Morgenstern
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