Bestsellers

The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended May 1 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. The Candy House: Jennifer Egan

3. Time Is a Mother: Ocean Vuong

4. Sea of Tranquility: Emily St. John Mandel

5. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus

6. Young Mungo: Douglas Stuart

7. City on Fire: Don Winslow

8. French Braid: Anne Tyler

9. Violeta: Isabel Allende

10. Lost and Found in Paris: Lian Dolan

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir: Molly Shannon

2. Finding Me: A Memoir: Viola Davis

3. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor — the Truth and the Turmoil: Tina Brown

4. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath: Bill Browder

5. Playing With Myself:

Randy Rainbow

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

7. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Michelle Zauner

8. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole: Susan Cain

9. Good Eats: The Final Years: Alton Brown

10. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir — and a Love Letter to a Way of Life: Nyle DiMarco, Robert Siebert

MASS MARKET

1. Animal Farm: George Orwell

2. Dune: Frank Herbert

3. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

4. A Raisin in the Sun: Lorraine Hansberry

5. Mythology: Edith Hamilton

6. Children of Dune: Frank Herbert

7. 1984: George Orwell

8. The Way of Kings: Brandon Sanderson

9. The Night Fire: Michael Connelly

10. Better Off Dead: Lee Child, Andrew Child

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION

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

2. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro

3. The Paper Palace: Miranda Cowley Heller

4. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

5. The Lost Apothecary: Sarah Penner

6. It Ends With Us: Colleen Hoover

7. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller

8. Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

9. Pachinko: Min Jin Lee

10. The Guncle: Steven Rowley

COURTESY OF HARPERONE “Finding Me,” a memoir by actress Viola Davis, is among the top-selling hardcover nonfiction releases at Southern California’s independent bookstores.