Bestsellers

The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended May 8 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. Sea of Tranquility: Emily St. John Mandel 2. City on Fire: Don

Winslow 3. Lessons in Chemistry:

Bonnie Garmus 4. The Candy House:

Jennifer Egan 5. The Paris Apartment:

Lucy Foley 6. I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom: Kim

Dower 7. The Midnight Library:

Matt Haig 8. Book of Night: Holly

Black 9. Time Is a Mother:

Ocean Vuong 10. Cloud Cuckoo Land:

Anthony Doerr

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Finding Me: A Memoir:

Viola Davis 2. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor — the Truth and the Turmoil: Tina Brown 3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner 4. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's

Future: Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns 5. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir: Molly Shannon, Sean Wilsey

6. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience: Brené Brown

7. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones: James

Clear

8. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood: Jessi Klein

9. Playing With Myself:

Randy Rainbow 10. Anna: The Biography:

Amy Odell

MASS MARKET

1. Dune: Frank Herbert

2. Bridgerton: The Duke and I: Julia Quinn

3. A Raisin in the Sun:

Lorraine Hansberry 4. Bridgerton: Romancing Mister Bridgerton:

Julia Quinn 5. Flowers for Algernon:

Daniel Keyes 6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas

Adams 7. The Hero of Ages:

Brandon Sanderson 8. The Well of Ascension:

Brandon Sanderson 9. Zodiac: Robert Graysmith 10. Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me:

Julia Quinn

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

1. Book Lovers: Emily

Henry 2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor

Jenkins Reid 3. Klara and the Sun:

Kazuo Ishiguro 4. Oh William!: Elizabeth

Strout 5. The Song of Achilles:

Madeline Miller

6. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: Ocean Vuong

7. Pachinko: Min Jin Lee

8. Circe: Madeline Miller

9. The House in the Cerulean Sea: T.J. Klune

10. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover

COURTESY OF KNOPF “Sea of Tranquility,” the new novel by “Station Eleven” author Emily St. John Mandel, is the top-selling fiction release at Southern California's independent bookstores.