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By Los Angeles Daily News Staff Report / April 6, 2021
The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended April 4 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 Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country: Amanda Gorman
2. Klara and the Sun: Kazuo Ishiguro
3. The Midnight Library: Matt Haig
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: V.E. Schwab
5. The Consequences of Fear: Jacqueline Winspear
6. The Committed: Viet Thanh Nguyen
7. The Four Winds: Kristin Hannah
8. Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell
9. The Vanishing Half: Brit Bennett
10. Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Code Breaker: Walter Isaacson
2. Caste: Isabel Wilkerson
3. The Beauty of Living Twice: Sharon Stone
4. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
5. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: Bill Gates
6. Untamed: Glennon Doyle
8. Mike Nichols: A Life: Mark Harris
9. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance: Hanif Abdurraqib
10. Greenlights: Matthew McConaughey
Mass Market
1. 1984: George Orwell
2. Dune: Frank Herbert
3. American Gods: Neil Gaiman
4. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
5. The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
8. Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me: Julia Quinn
9. Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut
10. The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
Trade Paperback Fiction
1. Circe: Madeline Miller
2. The Song of Achilles: Madeline Miller
3. Interior Chinatown: Charles Yu
4. Deacon King Kong: James McBride
5. The Sympathizer: Viet Thanh Nguyen
6. Shuggie Bain: Douglas Stuart
7. Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens
8. The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
9. The House in the Cerulean Sea: TJ Klune
10. The Dutch House: Ann Patchett
