The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo returns to #1 on the Los Angeles Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List for the week of October 11, 2015. This is the tenth different time the book has reached the top spot of the Nonfiction List. On the Hardcover Fiction List, Purity by Jonathan Franzen also returns to #1.
Fear of Dying by Erica Jong and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara are new additions to the Hardcover Fiction List this week. Debuting on the Nonfiction List are: Killing the Messenger by David Brooks; Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert; Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard; and Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After by Katherine Woodward Thomas.
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Los Angeles Times Best Sellers
Hardcover Fiction
1. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
2. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
3. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4. Make Me by Lee Child
5. Fear of Dying by Erica Jong
6. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
7. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
8. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
9. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
10. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Hardcover Nonfiction
1. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
2. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
3. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Killing the Messenger by David Brooks
5. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Killing Reagan by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
7. Conscious Uncoupling by Katherine Woodward Thomas
8. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde
9. The Art of the Memoir by Mary Karr
10. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
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