BESTSELLERS
LOS ANGELES TIMES JUNE 16, 2019
Fiction
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1. Normal (Hogarth: People $26) A by high Sally school Rooney star 7 athlete and a loner connect while attending Trinity College in Dublin. 2. Where the Crawdads Sing by 31 Delia Owens (G.P Putnam’s Sons: $26) A young woman living on her own in the coastal marshes of North Carolina becomes a murder suspect. 3. The Guest Book by Sarah Blake 4 (Flatiron: $27.99) The course of an American family over three generations, from the 1930s to present day. 4. Diary of an Awesome Friendly 8
Kid by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $13.99) Rowley Jefferson agrees to be the biographer for his best friend, Greg Heffley, while writing in a diary of his own. 5. The Sentence is Death by 1 Anthony Horowitz (Harper: $27.99) Detective Daniel Hawthorne teams with narrator Anthony Horowitz to solve the mysterious killing of a celebrity divorce lawyer. 6. Cari Mora by Thomas Harris 2 (Grand Central: $29) A treasure hunter meets the caretaker of a house that may have gold hidden beneath it. 7. The Storm by James Ellroy 1 (Knopf: $29.95) A body is unearthed in Griffith Park in the wake of Pearl Harbor. 8. Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, 51 Brown: $27) A retelling of the story of Circe, who draws the wrath of both men and gods. 9. The Island of Sea Women An 14 ancient guild of female divers on a South Korean Island reckon with the destruction of modernity from 1938 to 2008. 10. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan 6 (Nan A. Talese: $26.95) A love triangle between a couple and a synthetic human set in an alternative 1980s London.
Nonfiction
1. The McCullough $30) Pioneers The Pulitzer (Simon by David Prize-winning & Schuster: 4 historian of the Northwest rediscovers Territory the settling through five pioneers. 2. Howard Howard Stern Stern (Simon Comes Again & by 3 Schuster: interviewer $35) shares The his radio most memorable from the past on-air four decades. conversations 3. The Orlean Library (Simon Book & Schuster: by Susan $28) 33 The story of the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library. 4. Unfreedom of the Press by Mark 2 R. Levin (Threshold: $28) The radio host takes a critical look at the role of the press and its political ideology. 5. Make Your Bed by William H. 48 McRaven (Grand Central: $18) A graduation speech from Adm.William H. McRaven at the University of Texas. 6. Mr. Know-It-All by John Waters 2 (FSG: $27) The cult filmmaker dishes on his decades of outrageousness in the entertainment world. 7. Becoming by Michelle Obama 30 (Crown: $32.35) The former first lady recounts her childhood in Chicago, meeting Barack and their years in the White House. 8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a 110 F*ck by Mark Manson (HarperOne: $24.99) How not being positive all the time will make us become happier people.
9. Sea Stories by William H. 2 McRaven (Grand Central: $30) A memoir from the Navy admiral includes the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and the capture of Saddam Hussein. 10. Autumn Light by Pico Iyer 2 (Knopf: $31) The travel writer and journalist contemplates how to hold on to the things we love.