Los Angeles Times

BESTSELLER­S

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Fiction

1. Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam: $29) P.I. Kinsey Millhone helps a family whose son is being blackmaile­d after 10 years in prison for sexual assault.

2. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Viking: $27) In 1922, a Russian count is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel for the rest of his life.

3. Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta (Scribner: $26) A single mother has a sexual awakening after her son goes to college.

4. The Late Show by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $28) A female LAPD detective joins the overnight shift in Hollywood.

5. Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Knopf: $16.99) The trials and triumphs of a 10-year-old boy starting school for the first time.

6. House of Spies by Daniel Silva (Harper: $28.99) Israeli art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon hunts down a shadowy ISIS terrorist.

7. Camino Island by John Grisham (Doubleday: $28.95) A Florida bookstore owner, a struggling novelist and a heist from Princeton on a collision course.

8. The Ministry of Utmost

Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Knopf: $28.95) An intergener­ational story of love and hope that crosses the Indian subcontine­nt.

9. The Store by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $27) Two New York writers go undercover to expose secrets of a powerful retailer.

10. The Room of White Fire by T. Jefferson Parker (Putnam: $27) P.I. Roland Ford hunts down a dangerous, damaged soldier on the run.

Nonfiction

1. Astrophysi­cs for People in a

Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Norton: $18.95) A quick and easy introducti­on to the cosmos from the astrophysi­cist.

2. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a

F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperOne: $24.99) How stopping to try to be positive all the time will make us happier people.

3. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken (Twelve: $28) The senator from Minnesota’s memoir of his evolution from “Saturday Night Live” comedian to serious politician.

4. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (Harper: $27.99) The investor’s account of growing up poor in a white working-class neighborho­od.

5. Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven (Grand Central: $18) A graduation speech from Adm. William H. McRavenat the University of Texas.

6. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (Doubleday: $28.95) An investigat­ion into the systematic murder of Osage Native Americans for their oil in the 1920s.

7. Devil’s Bargain by Joshua Green (Penguin Press: $27) An examinatio­n of the relationsh­ip between Donald Trump and his former aide Steve Bannon.

8. Blindsided by James Ferraro (Gildan Press: $28) The decade-long courtroom battle against DuPont for a boy born with no eyes after his mother was doused with chemical fungicide.

9. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau: $24) The hazards and hopes of black male life

10. The Book of Joy by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama (Avery: $26) The Nobel Prize-winning spiritual leaders share their wisdom.

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