There are new books topping both the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Fiction and Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller Lists this week. Anne Rice's first installment in her Vampire Chronicle series in over a decade, Prince Lestat, is number one on the Fiction list while Amy Poehler's Yes, Please is number one in Nonfiction.
Also new this week on the Hardcover Fiction list are The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss; William Gibson's The Peripheral; and Nora Webster by Colm Toibin. On the Hardcover Nonfiction list, George R. R. Martin's The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) debuts this week just in time for holiday gift giving season.
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Los Angeles Times Best Sellers
Hardcover Fiction
1. Prince Lestat by Anne Rice
2. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
3. Some Luck by Jane Smiley
4. The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
5. The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
6. The Peripheral by William Gibson
7. Lila by Marilynne Robinson
8. The Children Act by Ian McEwan
9. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
10. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
2. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
3. Minecraft: Construction Handbook
4. Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
5. The World of Ice & Fire by George R. R. Martin
7. Invincible by Brian F. Martin
8. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
9. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
10. Agents of the Apocalypse by David Jeremiah
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