March 12, 2017 Los Angeles Times Best Sellers Available at the Library

Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance remains the #1 book on the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List for the 8th week in a row, while Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders retains the top spot on the Fiction Bestseller List for the week of March 12, 2017.

New to the Hardcover Nonfiction List this week is Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. Debuting on the Fiction List is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab.

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. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

2. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

3. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

4. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

5. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

6. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

7. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down by Jeff Kinney

9. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

10. A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance

2. The Little Book of Hygge by Meike Wiking

3. The Book of Joy by Desmond Tutu and The Dalai Lama

4. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

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

6. Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi

7. Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

8. The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

9. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

10. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

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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