Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal debuts in the top spot on the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List this week. Macintyre is the author of a popular series of books on World War II spies: Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies; Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory; and Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal. Also new on the Nonfiction Top Ten List this week is Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols.
The Heist by Daniel SIlva remains number one on the Hardcover Fiction List for the second straight week.
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Los Angeles Times Best Sellers
Hardcover Fiction
1. The Heist by Daniel SIlva
2. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
3. California by Edan Lepucki
4. The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
5. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
6. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
7. The Vacationers by Emma Straub
8. Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth
9. Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst
10. Tom Clancy: Support and Defend by Mark Greaney
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
2. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
3. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow
4. The Alliance by Reid Hoffman
5. #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
6. Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols and Celine Cousteau
7. Minecraft: Redstone Handbook
8. Blood Feud by Edward Klein
9. Think Like a Freak by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
10. Minecraft Essential Handbook
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