BESTSELLERS
LOS ANGELES TIMES JULY 9, 2017
Fiction1. Camino Island by John Grisham weekson list 4 (Doubleday:bookstore owner, $28.95)a strugglingA Florida novelist and a heist from Princeton on a collision course. 2. The Force by Don Winslow 1 (William Morrow: $27.99) A dirty New York cop on the force’s gang unit crosses the line. 3. The Ministry of Utmost 4 Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Knopf: $28.95) An intergenerational story of love and hope that crosses the Indian subcontinent. 4. Magpie Murders by Anthony 4 Horowitz (Harper: $) A murder mystery about a man who writes Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries.
5. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor 42 Towles (Viking: $27) In 1922, a Russian count is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel for the rest of his life. 6. Men Without Women by Haruki 7 Murakami (Knopf: $25.95) A married man’s ex-girlfriend commits suicide and other stories. 7. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 8 (Riverhead: $28) A single mother turns up dead in the new novel from the author of “The Girl on the Train.” 8. The Little French Bistro by Nina 2 George (Crown: $26) A German woman delays her suicide plans when she travels to a quaint seaside village on the French coast. 9. Lincoln in the Bardo by George 19 Saunders (Random House: $28) President Lincoln grieves the loss of his son and is haunted by ghosts. 10. Rich People Problems by Kevin 3 Kwan (Doubleday: $27.95) A Singapore family fights over the estate of their dying matriarch in the new novel from the author of “Crazy Rich Asians.” Nonfiction 1. Astrophysics for People in a 8 Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Norton: $18.95) A quick and easy introduction to the cosmos from the astrophysicist. 2. Theft by Finding: Diaries 4 (1977-2002) by David Sedaris (Little, Brown: $28) The early years of the private diaries of the popular humorist. 3. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate 4 by Al Franken (Twelve: $28) The senator from Minnesota’s memoir of his surprising evolution from “Saturday Night Live” comedian to serious politician. 4. Hunger by Roxane Gay (Harper: 2 $25.99) The “Bad Feminist” author reveals how a sexual assault affected her life and weight. 5. Make Your Bed by William H. 12 McRaven (Grand Central: $18) A graduation speech from Adm. William H. McRaven at the University of Texas. 6. Hue 1968: ATurning Point of the 4
American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden (Atlantic Monthly: $30) From the author of “Black Hawk Down,” The story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive during the American War in Vietnam. 7. You Don’t Have to Say You Love 1 Me by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown: $28) A powerful memoir about the author’s childhood near Spokane and his troubled relationship with his mother. 8. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance 45 (Harper: $27.99) The former Marine and Yale Law School graduate’s account of growing up poor in a white working-class neighborhood. 9. Killers of the Flower Moon by 9 David Grann (Doubleday: $28.95) An investigation into the systematic murder of Osage Native Americans for their oil in the 1920s. 10. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a 13 F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperOne: $24.99) How stopping to try to be positive all the time will make us become better, happier people.