{"id":333743,"date":"2026-05-27T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333743\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:32:08","slug":"this-weeks-bestsellers-at-southern-californias-independent-bookstores-orange-county-register-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333743\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s bestsellers at Southern California\u2019s independent bookstores \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended May 24 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and\u00a0IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HARDCOVER FICTION<\/p>\n

1. Yesteryear (Indies Introduce):\u00a0Caro Claire Burke<\/p>\n

2. The Correspondent:\u00a0Virginia Evans<\/p>\n

3. John of John:\u00a0Douglas Stuart<\/p>\n

4. The Things We Never Say:\u00a0Elizabeth Strout<\/p>\n

5. Ironwood:\u00a0Michael Connelly<\/p>\n

6. The Calamity Club:\u00a0Kathryn Stockett<\/p>\n

7. Heart the Lover:\u00a0Lily King<\/p>\n

8. Our Perfect Storm:\u00a0Carley Fortune<\/p>\n

9. Kin:\u00a0Tayari Jones<\/p>\n

10. A Parade of Horribles:\u00a0Matt Dinniman<\/p>\n

HARDCOVER NONFICTION<\/p>\n

1. Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage:\u00a0Belle Burden<\/p>\n

2. Famesick: A Memoir:\u00a0Lena Dunham<\/p>\n

3. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family\u2019s Search for Truth:\u00a0Patrick Radden Keefe<\/p>\n

4. Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children:\u00a0Mac Barnett<\/p>\n

5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This:\u00a0Omar El Akkad<\/p>\n

6. Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter:\u00a0Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/p>\n

7. How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University:\u00a0Theo Baker<\/p>\n

8. Dig In!: Over 100 Easy, Delicious, and Stress-Free Recipes to Make on Repeat (A Cookbook):\u00a0Erin O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

9. Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism:\u00a0Stewart Reynolds<\/p>\n

10. The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love:\u00a0Alice Hoffman (Ed.)<\/p>\n

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION<\/p>\n

1. Theo of Golden:\u00a0Allen Levi<\/p>\n

2. Project Hail Mary:\u00a0Andy Weir<\/p>\n

3. Dungeon Crawler Carl:\u00a0Matt Dinniman<\/p>\n

4. Remarkably Bright Creatures:\u00a0Shelby Van Pelt<\/p>\n

5. Angel Down:\u00a0Daniel Kraus<\/p>\n

6. Taiwan Travelogue:\u00a0Shuang-zi Yang<\/p>\n

7. I Who Have Never Known Men:\u00a0Jacqueline Harpman<\/p>\n

8. Great Big Beautiful Life:\u00a0Emily Henry<\/p>\n

9. The Knight and the Moth (Indie Exclusive Edition):\u00a0Rachel Gillig<\/p>\n

10. Martyr!:\u00a0Kaveh Akbar<\/p>\n

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION<\/p>\n

1. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI:\u00a0Karen Hao<\/p>\n

2. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder:\u00a0David Grann<\/p>\n

3. All About Love: New Visions:\u00a0bell hooks<\/p>\n

4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century:\u00a0Timothy Snyder<\/p>\n

5. Things in Nature Merely Grow:\u00a0Yiyun Li<\/p>\n

6. The Artist\u2019s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition:\u00a0Julia Cameron<\/p>\n

7. Raising Hare: A Memoir:\u00a0Chloe Dalton<\/p>\n

8. The Year of Magical Thinking:\u00a0Joan Didion<\/p>\n

9. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles:\u00a0Rosecrans Baldwin<\/p>\n

10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession:\u00a0Michael Finkel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended May 24 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[647,7,9,8,420],"class_list":["post-333743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-books","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}