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The week’s bestselling books, April 13

Southern California Bestsellers
(Los Angeles Times)

Hardcover fiction

1. Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (Forever: $28) After one perfect date, a couple navigates family crises and long distances.

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

3. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp.

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4. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29) A woman upends her domestic life.

5. Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley (Crown: $28) A love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music.

6. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf: $32) The story of four women and their loves, longings and desires.

7. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster: $29) A love triangle unearths dangerous secrets.

8. Playground by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton & Co.: $30) The Pacific Ocean-set novel explores one of the last wild places.

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9. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (Pantheon: $29) A woman fights for freedom in a near-future where even dreams are under surveillance.

10. The Antidote by Karen Russell (Knopf: $30) A Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraska town.

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Hardcover nonfiction

1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins (Hay House: $30) How to stop wasting energy on things you can’t control.

2. Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $30) A call to renew a politics of plenty and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.

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

4. Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition) by John Green (Crash Course Books: $28). The deeply human story of the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

5. Who Is Government? Michael Lewis, editor (Riverhead Books: $30) A civics lesson from a team of writers and storytellers.

6. When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter (Penguin Press: $32) The former Vanity Fair editor recalls the glamorous heyday of print magazines.

7. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron Books: $33) An insider’s account of working at Facebook.

8. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf: $28) A powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

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9. How to Love Better by Yung Pueblo (Harmony: $27) A blueprint to deepening your compassion, kindness and gratitude.

10. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Burgoyne (illustrator) (Scribner: $20) The “Braiding Sweetgrass” author on gratitude, reciprocity and community, and the lessons to take from the natural world.

Paperback fiction

1. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Vintage: $18)

2. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central: $20)

3. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press: $17)

4. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House Trade Paperbacks: $18)

5. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Transit Books: $17)

6. Funny Story by Emily Henry (Berkley: $19)

7. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster: $19)

8. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial: $22)

9. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (William Morrow Paperbacks: $18)

10. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne: $18)

Paperback nonfiction

1. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (Crown: $12)

2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Knopf: $35)

3. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (TarcherPerigee: $20)

4. The Wager by David Grann (Vintage: $21)

5. Eve by Cat Bohannon (Vintage: $20)

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

7. The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin (Simon & Schuster: $18)

8. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions: $20)

9. The White Album by Joan Didion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $18)

10. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (Vintage: $18)

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