L.A. Times Bestsellers - Oct. 30, 2011

Hardcover Fiction


1. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
A love triangle between recent Ivy League graduates.

2. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
New battles await Percy Jackson as he returns to a Roman half-blood camp.

3. The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
A young boy's sea voyage in the early 1950s from Sri Lanka to England.

4. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The complicated nature of relationships revolving around a gifted college baseball player.

5. Aleph by Paulo Coelho
A crisis of faith prompts a journey of self-discovery from Africa to Asia.

6. Reamde by Neal Stephenson
A former marijuana smuggler is at the center of a recently hacked online game in this techno thriller.

7. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A year in the social life of three twentysomethings set in jazz-age New York City.

8. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
A tale of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, set in 1920s Paris.

9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Two dueling magicians fall under the spell of love.

10. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
A teenager stumbles upon an abandoned children's home whose former occupants were a bit odd and dangerous.

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Boomerang by Michael Lewis
How the financial crisis transformed Global economies such as Greece, Ireland and Iceland.

2. Dear Cary by Dyan Cannon
The near fairy tale May-December romance between the ingenue and Cary Grant.

3. Go the F-- to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
A comical not-for-kids picture book on the perils of bedtime.

4. The Secret Lives of Wives by Iris Krasnow
Strategies for staying married from women who are in it for the long haul.

5. War of the Worldviews by Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow
A prominent physicist and renowned spiritualist ponder worldviews and the human experience.

6. Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
Glee's Jane Lynch tells of her childhood, struggles with alcohol, her sexuality and profession.

7. Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean
The true-life tale of the Hollywood superdog.

8. It's So Easy and Other Lies by Duff McKagan
A harrowing rock-n-roll journey from the Gun's n' Roses bass player.

9. Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
The dramatic events in the spring of 1865 leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

10. Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
A go-to guide to diabolical insects.