This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores – Orange County Register

The SoCal Independent Bestsellers list for the sales week ending April 21 is based on reporting from Southern California Independent Booksellers, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. James: Percival Everett

2. Women: Kristin Hannah

3. Table for two: Fictions: Love Towles

4. The familiar: Leigh Bardugo

5. The hunter: Tana French

6. Martyrdom! : Kaveh Akbar

7. The Ciel & Terre grocery store: James McBride

8. Until August: Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (Trans.)

9. A calamity of souls: David Baldacci

10. North Woods: Daniel Mason

HARD COVER NON-FICTION

1. One way or another: Thoughts on love: Anne Lamot

2. Knife: Meditations after attempted murder: Salman Rushdie

3. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal Story from the 1960s: Doris Kearns-Goodwin

4. The Age of Magical Thinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality: Amanda Montell

5. The creative act: a way of being: Rick Rubin

6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial ambition, first contact and Captain James Cook’s fateful final voyage: Hampton Sides

7. The bet: a story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder: David Grann

8. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Childhood Overhaul is Driving an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt

9. Grief is for people: Sloane Crosley

10. The Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present: Farid Zakaria

MASS MARKET

1. Dunes: Frank Herbert

2. The Messiah of the dunes: Frank Herbert

3. 1984: George Orwell

4. Mistborn: The Final Empire: Brandon Sanderson

5. The name of the wind: Patrick Rothfuss

6. And then there were none: Agatha Christie

7. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut

8. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson

9. Carrie: Stephen King

10. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert

COMMERCIAL PAPER FICTION

1. The three-body problem: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Trans.)

2. Just for summer: Abby Jiménez

3. Dunes: Frank Herbert

4. A court of thorns and roses: Sarah J. Maas

5. How to end a love affair: Yulin Kuang

6. The time of the ancient God: Sébastien Barry

7. A gentleman in Moscow: Love Towles

8. Horse: Geraldine Brooks

9. Forward: Emilie Hart

10. The Great Alone: Kristin Hannah