This week's bestsellers - Los Angeles Times - Dec. 4th 2011

Nov. 27 Dec. 4, 2011

Hardcover Fiction (Back to top)

1. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
A middle-age retiree re-evaluates his mediocre existence.

2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cabin Fever  by Jeff Kinney
Greg gets trapped in the house during a snowstorm.

3. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Don’t let appearances fool you in this multilayered narrative about loyalty and loss.

4. 11/22/63  by Stephen King
A man goes back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

5. V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone reports a shoplifter in a lingerie store and triggers a chain of events.

6. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
A love triangle among recent Ivy League graduates.

7. The Litigators by John Grisham
A burned out attorney joins a down-and-out firm in taking on a pharmaceutical company.

8. Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
Will justice be restored to Alagaësia in this conclusion to the Inheritance cycle?

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

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

Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
A portrait of the late Apple visionary as revealed by those in his inner circle.

2. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
In this follow-up to her memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking," Didion tells the painful and personal story of her daughter's death in 2005.

3. Then Again by Diane Keaton
The actress’ memoir is filled with musings on memoir filled with motherhood, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino.

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

5 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.

6. West by West by Jerry West
The Lakers legend reveals his demons in this candid autobiography.

7 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book by Jeff Kinney
A revised and expanded interactive journal based on the bestselling books and hit movies.

8 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The story of Louis Zamperini, a World War II bombardier, POW and Olympian.

9 Back to Work by Bill Clinton
The former president's blueprint on how to revive the economy.

10 In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Complex ties between the U.S. ambassador’s family and the Nazi elite in 1930s Berlin.