March 19, 2017 Los Angeles Times Best Sellers Available at the Library

No changes to the top of the Best Seller Lists for the week of March 19, 2017 as Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance remains the #1 book on the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List for the 9th week in a row, while Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders retains the top spot on the Fiction Bestseller List.

New to the Hardcover Nonfiction List this week is Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors by George W. Bush and Sapiens by Yuval Norah Harari. Debuting on the Fiction List is Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama and The Girl Before by J. P. Delaney.

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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. Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama

5. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

6. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

7. Moonglow by Michael Chabon

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

9. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

10. The Girl Before by J. P. Delaney

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance

2. Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors by George W. Bush

3. The Little Book of Hygge by Meike Wiking

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

5. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

6. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

7. Lonely Boy by Steve Jones

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

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

10. Sapiens by Yuval Norah Harari

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