BESTSELLERS

LOS ANGELES TIMES MAY 13, 2018

Fiction

1. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead: $28) The relationship challenges between a college freshman and a famous feminist.

2. Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown: $27) A retelling of the story of Circe, banished to an island where she draws the wrath of both men and gods. 3. The Only Story by Julian Barnes (Knopf: $25.95) An older man looks back with a pained sense at a relationship from his youth. 4. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press: $27) A new family and an adoption upend a quiet Cleveland suburb. 5. The Fallen by David Baldacci (Grand Central: $29) Amos Decker, the Memory Man, attempts to solve a string of four bizarre murders. 6. Noir by Christopher Moore (Morrow: $27.99) In 1947, a San Francisco bartender gets entangled with a dangerous dame. 7. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (Morrow: $26.99) A Manhattan recluse spends her days spying on neighbors. 8. The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown: $27) A portrait of a diverse MexicanAmerican family gathered in San Diego to honor its patriarch. 9. Tangerine by Christine Mangan (Ecco: $26.99) Two young women reconnect and come to grief and intrigue in 1956 Tangiers. 10. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Algonquin: $26.95) In this Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick, a new marriage is put to the test after the husband is wrongly imprisoned.

Nonfiction

1. A Higher Loyalty by James Comey (Flatiron: $29.99) The former FBI director recounts his two decades in American government, including the 2016 election. 2. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (Harper: $27.99) The years-long search for the Golden State Killer from the late wife of actor Patton Oswalt. 3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperOne: $24.99) How stopping to try to be positive all the time will make us happier people. 4. Measure What Matters by John Doerr (Portfolio: $27) The power of objectives and key results and why every business should use them. 5. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson (Random House: $25.95) A hard-line, self-help manual of self-reliance and good behavior. 6. Edge of Chaos by Dambisa Moyo (Basic Books: $30) A call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy. 7. Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright (Harper: $27.99) The former secretary of state’s examination of fascism’s legacy in today’s world. 8. War on Peace by Ronan Farrow (Norton: $27.95) An exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and our precarious position abroad. . 9. Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff & David Corn (Twelve: $30) Behind the investigation of President Trump’s campaign’s ties to Russia. 10. Educated by Tara Westover (Random House: $28) A young woman raised without schooling by survivalists parents describes her path to Cambridge University.