This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended May 12, 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. Funny Story: Emily Henry

2. James: Percival Everett

3. Long Island: Colm Toibin

4. Table for Two: Fictions: Amor Towles

5. The Women: Kristin Hannah

6. The Paris Novel: Ruth Reichl

7. The Familiar: Leigh Bardugo

8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: James McBride

9. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar

10. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War: Erik Larson

2. The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rick Rubin

3. Somehow: Thoughts on Love: Anne Lamott

4. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt

5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder: Salman Rushdie

6. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World: Jen Psaki

7. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann

8. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s: Doris Kearns Goodwin

9. Coming Home: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford

10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides

MASS MARKET

1. Dune: Frank Herbert

2. Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert

3. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

4. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert

5. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: Oscar Wilde

6. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

7. 1984: George Orwell

8. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson

9. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

10. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Scott Lynch

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Rupert Holmes

2. A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas

3. The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu

4. This Summer Will Be Different: Carley Fortune

5. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig

6. Rouge: Mona Awad

7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid

8. Dune: Frank Herbert

9. A Court of Mist and Fury: Sarah J. Maas

10. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho