West of Eden by Jean Stein, an oral history of five prominent Los Angeles families, is the new number one title on the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers List this week. The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin remains the #1 book on the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Best Sellers List.

New to the Fiction Hardcover Best Sellers List this week are Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta and The Widow by Fiona Barton.

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Los Angeles Times Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

1.  The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

2.  My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 

3.  The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 

4.  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

5.  The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon 

6.  Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 

7.  The Travelers by Chris Pavone 

8.  The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 

9.  Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta

10. The Widow by Fiona Barton

Hardcover Nonfiction

1.  West of Eden by Jean Stein 

2.  When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 

3.  Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.  The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

5.  Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

6.  Dark Money by Jane Mayer  

7.  Spark Joy by Marie  Kondo 

8.  And Then All Hell Broke Loose by Richard Engel

9.  The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson 

10.  In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

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