BESTSELLERS
LOS ANGELES TIMES FEB. 5, 2017
Fiction
1. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay (Grove Press: $25) A collection of short stories featuring passionate women living complex lives.
2. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday: $26.95) A slave escapes via the Underground Railroad, imagined as a train running under America.
3. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Viking: $27) In 1922, a Russian count is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel for the rest of his life.
4. The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $29) A dying magnate hires Harry Bosch to track down an heir to his fortune.
5. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (Harper: $27.99) A kiss in California leads to divorce, remarriage and a family secret that unfolds over a generation.
6. Moonglow by Michael Chabon (Harper: $28.99) A multi-generational saga of a family’s secrets, lies and loves.
7. Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany (Pottermore: $29.99) This script from the West End play finds adult Harry Potter working at the Ministry of Magic.
8. Transit by Rachel Cusk (Transit: $26) A newly divorced writer moves to London with her two sons in the sequel to “Outline.” .
9. The Whistler by John Grisham (Doubleday: $28.95) A previously disbarred lawyer alerts a Florida investigator to a corrupt judge involved with the Mob.
10. Swing Time by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press: $27) Childhood best friends' dreams of becoming dancers take them down two different paths.
Nonfiction
1. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (Harper: $27.99) The investment banker’s account of growing up poor in Appalachia.
2. The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis (Norton: $28.95) A history of Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and the birth of behavioral economics.
3. Three Days in January by Bret Baier (Morrow: $28.99) An account of the final days of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.
4. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books: $24.95) The case that trees in the forest are purposeful, social beings living in dynamic relationship with each other.
5. The Book of Joy by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama (Avery: $26) The spiritual leaders share their wisdom.
6. Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi (Spiegel & Grau: $28) Essays about on the 2016 presidential campaign and its aftermath by the Rolling Stone contributor. .
7. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider Press: $26) The actress revisits her “Star Wars” days, revealing an affair with Harrison Ford.
8. The Genius of Judaism by Bernard-Henri Lévy (Random House: $28) The philosopher and activist’s new vision of what it means to be Jewish.
9. The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking (Morrow: $28.99) A guide to the Danish philosophy of comfort, togetherness and well-being. 10. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (Grand Central: $28) The author joins a team of scientists searching for a lost civilization in the Honduran jungle.