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The week’s bestselling books, June 30

Southern California Bestsellers
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Hardcover fiction

1. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Press: $30) An intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

3. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A woman upends her domestic life in this irreverent and tender novel.

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4. Table for Two by Amor Towles (Viking: $32) A collection of stories from the author of “The Lincoln Highway.”

5. Funny Story by Emily Henry (Berkley: $29) Two opposites with the wrong thing in common connect.

6. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl (Random House: $29) An adventure through the food, art and fashion scenes of 1980s Paris.

7. Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown & Co., $30) The last of the author’s bestselling Nantucket novels.

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8. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf: $28) An orphaned son of Iranian immigrants embarks on a search for a family secret.

9. The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley (William Morrow: $30) Twists abound in this locked-room murder mystery.

10. Parade by Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27) A meditation on art, family and gender.

Hardcover nonfiction

1. On Call by Anthony Fauci, M.D. (Viking: $36) A memoir by the doctor whose six-decade career in public service has spanned seven presidents.

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2. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (Crown: $35) An exploration of the pivotal five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the start of the Civil War.

3. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer’s guidance on how to be a creative person.

4. The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne (Penguin Press: $30) The actor-director’s memoir of growing up in Hollywood and Manhattan.

5. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press: $30) An investigation into the collapse of youth mental health.

6. Atomic Habits by James Clear (Avery: $27) The self-help expert’s guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones via tiny changes in behavior.

7. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones by Priyanka Mattoo (Knopf: $29) A world traveler’s search for home, from Kashmir to L.A.

8. An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster: $35) The historian weaves together memoir and history in recounting the emotional journey she and her husband embarked on in the last years of his life.

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9. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides (Doubleday: $35) An epic account of Capt. James Cook’s final voyage.

10. Inventing Paradise by Paul Haddad (Santa Monica Press: $30) An exploration of the rise of Los Angeles through six influential figures: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland and Moses Sherman.

Paperback fiction

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury: $19)

2. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See (Scribner: $19)

3. Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley: $19)

4. The Guest by Emma Cline (Random House: $18)

5. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez (Forever: $18)

6. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Penguin: $18)

7. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune (Berkley: $19)

8. Happy Place by Emily Henry (Berkley: $19)

9. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Ecco: $18)

10. Trust by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books: $17)

Paperback nonfiction

1. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books: $20)

2. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (Harper Perennial: $19)

3. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $13)

4. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17)

5. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. (Penguin: $19)

6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

7. Stay True by Hua Hsu (Anchor: $17)

8. The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer (New Harbinger: $19)

9. What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin: $19)

10. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $19)

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