April 5, 2015 Los Angeles Times Best Sellers Available at the Library

Holding steady at number one on the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Fiction List for the 10th week in a row is The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson is number one on the Hardcover Nonfiction List.

Debuting on the Fiction List this week is A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear. On the Nonfiction list, the newcomers are Frank by Barney Frank and Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin.

Click on any title on the list to place a hold on an item free of charge. You will need to know your library card number and the last four digits of the phone number associated with your card. After placing the hold select the library location to which you want the item sent and we will notify you when it is available for pick up.

Los Angeles Times Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

3. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

4. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

5. World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

6. The Whites by Harry Brandt

7. Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon

8. The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell

9. A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear

10. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Dead Wake by Erik Larson

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

3. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

4. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

5. Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

6. Frank by Barney Frank

7. The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard

8. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin

9. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

10. How to Be a Parisian Wherever You Are by Anne Berest

To find out more about recent arrivals and hot titles, book lists by subject, new books by genre and other reader resources, and what our librarians are reading, please visit LAPL Reads.

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Best Sellers

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