BESTSELLERS
LOS ANGELES TIMES OCT. 29, 2017
Fiction 1. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (Scribner: $27) The first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II seeks to uncover the reason for her father’s disappearance. 2. Origin by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $29.95) A discovery by a futurist and former student of Robert Langdon sends him on a quest to uncover the questions of human existence. 3. Little Celeste Fires Ng Everywhere (Penguin Press: by $27) A upend new family a quiet and Cleveland an adoption suburb. 4. Turtles Green (Dutton: All the Way $19.99) Down In by this John YA novel, friendship and a love triangle are complicated by intense emotions, money and a mystery. 5. Legacy of Spies by John le Carré (Viking: $28) A retired British Secret Service agent is interrogated about his past and former colleague George Smiley. 6. Fresh Complaints by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $27) A story collection featuring characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. 7. Wonder by R.J. Palacio (Knopf: $16.99) The trials and triumphs of a 10-year-old boy starting school for the first time.
8. 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. 9. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster: $27.99) Three siblings in the 1960s uncover secrets as they try to break a family curse. 10. The Girl Who Takes and Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz (Knopf: $27.95) Lisbeth Salander is back, teaming with a journalist to uncover the secrets of her childhood. Nonfiction 1. What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster: $18) The former presidential candidate’s memoir of losing the 2016 election. 2. Grant by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press: $40) A biography of Ulysses S. Grant, Union general and two-term U.S. president, by the author of “Hamilton.” 3. Life Beyond Amazing by David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson: $24.99) Nine qualities of character that will transform your life. 4. We Ta-Nehisi Were Eight Coates Years (One in World: Power by $28)Eight essays previously published in the Atlantic, from each year of the Obama administration. 5. Code Girls by Liza Mundy (Hachette: $28) The story of a hidden army of American female cryptographers that broke codes during WWII. 6. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Norton: $18.95) A quick and easy introduction to the cosmos from the astrophysicist. 7. Blue Ocean Shift by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne (Hachette: $28) Strategies on how to create a new market space.
8. Devotion by Patti Smith (Yale University Press: $18) The rocker-writer’s exploration of the nature of creative invention featuring a love story concerning an Estonian skater. 9. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump by Bandy X. Lee & Robert Jay Lifton (Thomas Dunne: $27.99) 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts give their assessments of the president. 10. Killing England by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Holt: $30) The Revolutionary War told through the eyes of America’s Founding Fathers and King George III.