Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks is the new #1 book on the Los Angeles Times Fiction Hardcover List for the week of December 3, 2017, while Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza moves into the top spot the Hardcover Nonfiction List.

Debuting on the Hardcover Fiction List this week are Artemis by Andy Weir and Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. New to Hardcover Nonfiction List are: Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden; Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle;  and Endurance by Scott Kelly.

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Los Angeles Times Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

1. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney

3. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan 

4. Artemis by Andy Weir

5. The Midnight Line by Lee Child 

6. Origin by Dan Brown 

7. Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly 

8. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

9. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 

10. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green 

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza

2. Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 

3. Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden

4. Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews

5. Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle

6. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson 

7. Grant by Ron Chernow 

8. Endurance by Scott Kelly

9. We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

10. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

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