BESTSELLERS

LOS ANGELE S TIME S OCT. 5 , 2014

Fiction

1. Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett ( Dutton: $ 36) The final book in the Century Trilogy spans the tumultuous eras from 1960s through the 1980s.

2. The Children Act by Ian McEwan ( Nan A. Talese: $ 25) A married couple’s midlife crisis told from the wife’s perspective.

3. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell ( Random House: $ 30) A series of interconnected tales centered on a 15- year- old runaway with psychic powers.

4. Perfidia by James Ellroy ( Knopf: $ 28.95) The case of a Japanese American family found dead in L. A. the night before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

5. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ( Little, Brown: $ 30) A young man clings to a painting years after surviving an explosion at a museum that killed his mother.

6. Personal by Lee Child ( Delacorte: $ 28) Jack Reacher reluctantly teams with a rookie analyst to stop an American sniper targeting the G- 8 summit.

7. Adultery by Paulo Coelho ( Knopf: $ 24.95) Beset with a midlife crisis, a woman engages in an affair with a childhood friend. 8. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His

Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami ( Knopf: $ 25.95) A Tokyo railroad engineer revisits his painful past.

9. The Secret Place by Tana French ( Viking: $ 27.95) A photo reignites a murder investigation at a posh girls school in Dublin. 10. Somewhere Safe with Somebody

Good by Jan Karon ( Putnam: $ 27.95) Father Tim struggles with retirement in the latest installment in the Mitford series.

Nonfiction

1. World Order by Henry Kissinger ( Penguin Press: $ 36) The former secretary of State warns of the dangers of isolationism in U. S. foreign policy.

2. What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey ( Flatiron: $ 24.99) A collection of 14 years of inspirational columns from O, The Oprah Magazine.

3. 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckhoff ( Twelve: $ 28) An account of the terrorist attacks on U. S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

4. Minecraft: Combat Handbook by Scholastic ( Scholastic: $ 7.99) Tips on defending yourself from monsters and enemy players in the online building game.

5. What If? by Randall Munroe ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: $ 24) Funny yet scientific answers to absurd questions from the creator of the xkcd webcomic.

6. Be the Message by Kerry & Chris Shook ( Waterbrook: $ 21.99) Living out the gospel with action not just words.

7. This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein ( Simon & Schuster: $ 30) A look at the effects of climate change and critique of the government’s inadequate response.

8. Thirteen Days in September by Lawrence Wright ( Knopf: $ 27.95) A detailed account of the 1978 Camp David Peace Summit.

9. Waking Up by Sam Harris ( Simon & Schuster: $ 26) A guide to practicing spirituality without organized religion.

10. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty ( Norton: $ 24.95) A young female mortician dishes on her profession in this collection of life and death essays.