The SoCal Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by IndieBound and SCIBA, for the 
sales week ended Sunday, March 15, 2015. Based on reporting from the independent 
booksellers of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association and 
IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org.

HARDCOVER FICTION 
1. The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594633669
2. All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27, 9781476746586
3. The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307271037
4. A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler, Knopf, $25.95, 9781101874271
5. The Whites
Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt, Holt, $28, 9780805093995
6. The Fifth Gospel
Ian Caldwell, S&S, $25.99, 9781451694147
7. Leaving Berlin
Joseph Kanon, Atria, $27, 9781476704647
8. World Gone By
Dennis Lehane, Morrow, $27.99, 9780060004903
9. Funny Girl
Nick Hornby, Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594205415
10. The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $27.99, 9780312577223
11. Trigger Warning
Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $26.99, 9780062330260
12. Endangered
C.J. Box, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399160776
13. Murder on the Champ de Mars
Cara Black, Soho Crime, $27.95, 9781616952860
14. The Musical Brain: And Other Stories
Cesar Aira, New Directions, $29.95, 9780811220293
15. All the Old Knives
Olen Steinhauer, Minotaur, $23.99, 9781250045423
 
HARDCOVER NONFICTION 
1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo, Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781607747307
2. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson, Crown, $28, 9780307408860
3. Being Mortal
Atul Gawande, Metropolitan, $26, 9780805095159
4. Girl in a Band
Kim Gordon, Dey Street, $27.99, 9780062295897
5. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
Pico Iyer, S&S/TED, $14.99, 9781476784724
6. Yes Please
Amy Poehler, Dey Street, $28.99, 9780062268341
7. Believer
David Axelrod, Penguin Press, $35, 9781594205873
8. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert D. Putnam, S&S, $28, 9781476769899
9. What If?
Randall Munroe, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780544272996
10. The Motivation Manifesto
Brendon Burchard, Hay House, $19.99, 9781401948078
11. Ghettoside
Jill Leovy, Spiegel & Grau, $28, 9780385529983
12. H Is for Hawk
Helen MacDonald, Grove Press, $26, 9780802123411
13. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast, Bloomsbury, $28, 9781608198061
14. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneier, Norton, $27.95, 9780393244816
15. No-Drama Discipline
Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson, Bantam, $26, 9780345548047
 
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 
1. The Alchemist (25th Anniversary Edition)
Paulo Coelho, HarperOne, $16.99, 9780062315007
2. China Dolls
Lisa See, Random House, $16, 9780812982824
3. The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion, S&S, $15.99, 9781476729091
4. My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17, 9781609450786
5. Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $15.95, 9780307455925
6. The Husband's Secret
Liane Moriarty, Berkley, $16, 9780425267721
7. Ruby
Cynthia Bond, Crown, $16, 9780804188241
8. Suspended Sentences
Patrick Modiano, Yale University Press, $16, 9780300198058
9. The Martian
Andy Weir, Broadway, $15, 9780553418026
10. Redeployment
Phil Klay, Penguin, $16, 9780143126829
11. Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi, Riverhead, $16, 9781594633409
12. One More Thing
B.J. Novak, Vintage, $14.95, 9780804169783
13. Frog Music
Emma Donoghue, Back Bay, $17, 9780316324670
14. Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline, Morrow, $14.99, 9780061950728
15. The Painter
Peter Heller, Vintage, $15.95, 9780804170154
 
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 
1. Wild
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9781101873441
2. The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17, 9780143125471
3. We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anchor, $7.95, 9781101911761
4. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $16, 9780812987119
5. I Hate Myselfie
Shane Dawson, Atria/Keywords Press, $16, 9781476791548
6. This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
John Brockman, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062374349
7. Bossypants
Tina Fey, Reagan Arthur Books, $16, 9780316056878
8. Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
Carmine Gallo, St. Martin's Griffin, $15.99, 9781250061539
9. American Sniper
Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Morrow, $15.99, 9780062376336
10. The Hotel on Place Vendome
Tilar J. Mazzeo, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780061791048
11. The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, The New Press, $19.95, 9781595586438
12. Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949332
13. Citizen
Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, $20, 9781555976903
14. Going Clear
Lawrence Wright, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307745309
15. Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062282712
 
MASS MARKET
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Grand Central, $8.99, 9780446310789
2. Lord of the Flies
William Golding, Perigee, $9.99, 9780399501487
3. The Heist
Daniel Silva, Harper, $9.99, 9780062320063
4. Dune
Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99, 9780441172719
5. Stone Cold
C.J. Box, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425272824
6. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
7. A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99, 9780553593716
8. The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch, Spectra, $7.99, 9780553588941
9. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Little Brown, $8.99, 9780316769488
10. Missing You
Harlan Coben, Signet, $9.99, 9780451414120
 
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend
Dan Santat, Little Brown, $17, 9780316199988
2. The Book With No Pictures
B.J. Novak, Dial, $17.99, 9780803741713
3. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
4. The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.), Philomel, $17.99, 9780399255373
5. The Golden Egg Book
Margaret Wise Brown, Golden Books, $3.99, 9780385384766
6. Good Night, Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Putnam, $7.99, 9780399230035
7. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $18.99, 9780060254926
8. Once Upon a Cloud
Claire Keane, Dial, $17.99, 9780803739116
9. Ten Easter Eggs
Vijaya Bodach, Laura Logan (Illus.), Cartwheel, $8.99, 9780545747301
10. Little Blue Truck
Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $6.99, 9780547248288
 
CHILDREN'S INTEREST 
1. Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell (Illus.), Candlewick, $8.99, 9780763676711
2. The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate, Patricia Castelao (Illus.), Harper, $7.99, 9780061992278
3. Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard, HarperTeen, $17.99, 9780062310637
4. Looking for Alaska (Special 10th Anniversary Edition)
John Green, Dutton, $19.99, 9780525428022
5. Minecraft: Construction Handbook
Scholastic, Scholastic, $7.99, 9780545685177
6. The Terrible Two
Jory John, Mac Barnett, Kevin Cornell (Illus.), Amulet, $13.95, 9781419714917
7. Paper Towns
John Green, Speak, $9.99, 9780142414934
8. Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan, Puffin, $8.99, 9780142422861
9. Roller Girl
Victoria Jamieson, Dial, $12.99, 9780803740167
10. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Chris Grabenstein, Yearling, $6.99, 9780307931474
 
CHILDREN'S FICTION SERIES
1. Elephant & Piggie
Mo Willems, Hyperion
2. The Maze Runner
James Dashner, Delacorte
3. Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet
5. Big Nate
Lincoln Peirce, Harper
6. Divergent
Veronica Roth, Katherine Tegen Books
7. The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann, Aladdin
8. Mercy Watson
Kate DiCamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illus.), Candlewick
9. Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland, Scholastic
10. The Heroes of Olympus
Rick Riordan, Hyperion