BESTSELLERS

Fiction 1.

Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr (Scribner: $30) Intertwined stories of teenagers in a 1453 siege, at an attack on a library in present-day Idaho and aboard a starship in deep space.

2. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Viking: $30) In Nebraska, 1954, a juvenile parolee inadvertently helps two convicts escape and gets tangled in their plans.

3. The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $29) Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch investigate a New Year's Eve killing.

4. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Random House: $27) A divorced couple come together to investigate a sordid family secret.

5. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (FSG: $30) The lives of a Chicago pastor, his wife and their four children go in separate directions in 1971.

6. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom (Harper: $24) The author imagines God appearing to shipwreck survivors adrift at sea.

7. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Harper: $29) An ex-con working at a haunted bookstore tries to solve a murder.

8. Never by Ken Follett (Viking: $36) An espionage thriller.

9. Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart (Random House: $28) An eclectic group of friends endure the pandemic lockdown.

10. Termination Shock Neal Stephenson (Morrow: $35) A billionaire restaurateur devises a solution to global warming.

Nonfiction

1. The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, et al. (One World: $38) A collection of essays that explores the legacy of forced slavery in America.

2. The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro (Avery: $35) The food blogger’s first cookbook.

3. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (FSG: $35) How early human history set the course for today’s world.

4. Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner (Knopf: $27) A memoir from the Korean-born singer-songwriter.

5. My Body by Emily Ratajkowski (Metropolitan: $26) The model-actress explores beauty and feminism.

6. A Carnival of Snackery 7 by David Sedaris (Little, Brown: $32) A collection of personal diaries from the humorist.

7. Will by Will Smith (Penguin: $30) A memoir from the actor-producer.

8. Betrayal by Jonathan Karl (Dutton: $28) The political reporter details the last months, weeks and days of the Trump presidency.

9. The Lyrics by Paul McCartney (Liveright: $100) The former Beatle shares the stories and inspirations behind 154 songs.

10. Midnight in Washington by Adam Schiff (Random House: $30) The Burbank Democratic representative sounds the alarm about democracy in the U.S.

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Southern California bestsellers from CALIBA