BESTSELLERS

LOS ANGELES TIMES MARCH 17, 2019

Fiction

1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Dellia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons: $26) A young woman living on her own in the coastal marshes of North Carolina must engage with the people around her.

2. The Border by Don Winslow (Morrow: $28.99) The fight to keep drugs out of the country takes a complicated turn in the third book in the Power of the Dog series.

3. Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild by Dav Pilkey (Graphix : $9.99) A heroic hound and his pals work to prove his innocence for a crime he didn’t commit.

4. There There by Tommy Orange (Knopf: $25.95) A powerful tale of contemporary Native American life.

5. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (Riverhead: $30) A tracker tells the tale of a powerful man destroyed by demons.

6. Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown: $27) A retelling of the story of Circe, who draws the wrath of both men and gods.

7. Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert (St. Martin’s: $27.99) The 22-year relationship between two women who never expected to meet, in the sequel to Moloka’i.

8. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (Scribner: $27) An ancient guild of female divers on a South Korean Island reckon with the destruction of modernity from 1938 to 2008.

9. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Celadon: $26.99) A famous painter stops speaking after shooting her husband.

10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Meltdown by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $13.95) An epic snowball fight continues the Wimpy Kid series.

Nonfiction

1. Educated by Tara Westover (Random House: $28) A young woman raised without schooling by survivalists describes her path to Cambridge University.

2. Becoming by Michelle Obama (Crown: $32.35) The former first lady recounts her childhood in Chicago, meeting Barack and their years in the White House.

3. American Sutra by Duncan Ryu ken Williams (Belknap Press: $29.46) How a uniquely American Buddhism was born from Japanese Americans incarcerated in camps during World War II.

4. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster: $28) The story of the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library.

5. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (Ten Speed Press: $16.99) The cleaning guru’s method to de-cluttering your home and simplifying your life.

6. The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe (St. Martin’s: $29.99) The former deputy director of the F.B.I. recounts the time between Donald Trump’s 2016 election, his firing and two decade career.

7. The Wild Bunch by W.K. Stratton (Bloomsbury: $28) A definitive history of the making of one of the greatest Westerns of all time.

8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperOne: $24.99) How not being positive all the time will make us become happier people.

9. Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis (Thomas Dunne: $22.99) Tips for living a joy-filled life.

10. Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher (Bloomsbury: $27) An examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age.