{"id":354030,"date":"2026-06-10T02:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354030\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:12:16","slug":"this-weeks-bestsellers-at-southern-californias-independent-bookstores-daily-news-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354030\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s bestsellers at Southern California\u2019s independent bookstores \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended June 7 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. Whistler:\u00a0Ann Patchett<\/p>\n

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

3. Land:\u00a0Maggie O\u2019Farrell<\/p>\n

4. The Midnight Train:\u00a0Matt Haig<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

10. The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions:\u00a0Ruth Ozeki<\/p>\n

HARDCOVER NONFICTION<\/p>\n

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

2. The Land and Its People: Essays:\u00a0David Sedaris<\/p>\n

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

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

5. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness:\u00a0Michael Pollan<\/p>\n

6. All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches:\u00a0Ben Rhodes<\/p>\n

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

8. Shameful Silence: What You Don\u2019t Know about Domestic Violence:\u00a0Alexandra Lozano<\/p>\n

9. The Creative Act: A Way of Being:\u00a0Rick Rubin<\/p>\n

10. The Little Frog\u2019s Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet\u2019s Beloved Mushroom Frog:\u00a0Maybell Eequay<\/p>\n

TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. The Odyssey:\u00a0Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.)<\/p>\n

8. The Midnight Library:\u00a0Matt Haig<\/p>\n

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

10. James:\u00a0Percival Everett<\/p>\n

TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION<\/p>\n

1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly:\u00a0Anthony Bourdain<\/p>\n

2. Rewrite the Program: How to Stop Conforming, Start Exploring, and Find Fulfillment:\u00a0Eli Bowman<\/p>\n

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

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

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

6. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma:\u00a0Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.<\/p>\n

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

8. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession:\u00a0Michael Finkel<\/p>\n

9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays:\u00a0Joan Didion, Farrar<\/p>\n

10. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder:\u00a0David Grann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the\u00a0sales week ended June 7 is based on reporting from the independent\u00a0booksellers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[647,7,9,8,420],"class_list":["post-354030","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\/354030","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=354030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}