



The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended June 1 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Atmosphere: Taylor Jenkins Reid
2. The Emperor of Gladness: Ocean Vuong
3. James: Percival Everett
4. Never Flinch: Stephen King
5. Great Big Beautiful Life: Emily Henry
6. My Friends: Fredrik Backman
7. Fever Beach: Carl Hiaasen
8. Nightshade: Michael Connelly
9. The Wedding People: Alison Espach
10. Dungeon Crawler Carl: Matt Dinniman
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About: Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
2. Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again: Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
3. Shoveling $H!t: A Love Story about the Entrepreneur’s Messy Path to Success: Kass Lazerow, Michael Lazerow
4. Notes to John: Joan Didion
5. Abundance: Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
6. The #1 Dad Book: James Patterson
7. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin: Steve Martin
8. I Regret Almost Everything: Keith McNally
9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection: John Green
10. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World: Robin Wall Kimmerer, illustrated by John Burgoyne
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. Problematic Summer Romance: Ali Hazelwood
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures: Shelby Van Pelt
3. Martyr!: Kaveh Akbar
4. All Fours: Miranda July
5. I Who Have Never Known Men: Jacqueline Harpman
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin
7. One Golden Summer: Carley Fortune
8. Parable of the Sower: Octavia E. Butler
9. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: Ocean Vuong
10. The Ministry of Time: Kaliane Bradley
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder: David Grann
2. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
3. The Artist’s Way: 30th Anniversary Edition: Julia Cameron
4. All About Love: New Visions: bell hooks
5. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession: Michael Finkel
6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook: Hampton Sides
7. Just Kids: Patti Smith
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution: Cat Bohannon
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Joan Didion
10. The Year of Magical Thinking: Essays: Joan Didion