Southern California Independent Bookstores Reveal Current Bestsellers

**Hardcover Fiction**

1. *Exit Party* by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf, $32.00, ISBN 9780593321461)

2. *American Hagwon* by Min Jin Lee (Cardinal, $36.00, ISBN 9781538752036)

3. *Threshing Day (Wing and Claw Collection) (The Empyrean)* by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books, $24.99, ISBN 9781682818084)

4. *Whistler* by Ann Patchett (Harper, $30.00, ISBN 9780063511637)

5. *Peck & Peck* by Bonnie Garmus (Scribner, $30.00, ISBN 9781668251065)

6. *Hollywood, Ending* by John Green (Dutton Books, $32.00, ISBN 9780525426073)

7. *Miss Wolcott’s Ghost (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #21)* by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books, $30.00, ISBN 9781250412607)

8. *The Disappearers* by Marlon James (Riverhead Books, $32.00, ISBN 9780593717202)

9. *The Calamity Club* by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau, $35.00, ISBN 9781954118812)

10. *The Pirate Queen* by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday, $32.00, ISBN 9780385550345)

**Hardcover Nonfiction**

1. *Simply Ina: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook* by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $40.00, ISBN 9780593234174)

2. *Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State* by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company, $29.99, ISBN 9781324131656)

3. *Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up* by David Byrne (Penguin Press, $36.00, ISBN 9780593655276)

4. *The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic* by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company, $34.00, ISBN 9780316603782)

5. *The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World* by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking, $38.00, ISBN 9780525562238)

**Paperback Fiction**

1. *East of Eden* by John Steinbeck (Penguin, $25.00, ISBN 9780142004234)

2. *Theo of Golden* by Allen Levi (Atria Books, $20.00, ISBN 9781668236512)

3. *I Who Have Never Known Men* by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books, $16.95, ISBN 9781945492600)

4. *The Best Short Stories 2026: The O. Henry Prize Winners* edited by Tommy Orange (Vintage, $20.00, ISBN 9780593689622)

5. *The Road to Tender Hearts* by Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books, $20.00, ISBN 9780593873465)

**Paperback Nonfiction**

1. *All About Love: New Visions* by bell hooks (William Morrow Paperbacks, $17.99, ISBN 9780060959470)

2. *Tuesdays With Morrie* by Mitch Albom (Broadway, $18.00, ISBN 9780767905923)

3. *It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin* by Marisa Meltzer (Atria Books, $19.00, ISBN 9781668060292)

4. *Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly* by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco, $18.99, ISBN 9780060899226)

5. *Mother Mary Comes to Me* by Arundhati Roy (Scribner, $20.00, ISBN 9781668094723)

**Mass Market Paperback**

1. *The Left Hand of Darkness* by Ursula K. Le Guin (Ace, $10.99, ISBN 9780441478125)

2. *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy* by Douglas Adams (Del Rey, $9.99, ISBN 9780345391803)

3. *The Name of the Wind* by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW, $10.99, ISBN 9780756404741)

4. *1984* by George Orwell (Signet, $12.00, ISBN 9780451524935)

5. *The Brothers Karamazov* by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Signet, $9.99, ISBN 9780451530608)

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