Saturday, October 15, 2011

Los Angeles Times Bestseller List for Fiction: October 16, 2011

1. The Affair by Lee Child
Jack Reacher's final days in the army culinates with a death on the tracks shrouded by military bureaucracy and small town corruption.

2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Two dueling magicians fall under the spell of love.

3. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
A tale of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife.

4. Everything On It by Shel Silverstein
New drawings and poems left behind by the late author.

5. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The complicated nature of relationships revolving around a gifted college baseball player.

6. Reamde by Neal Stephenson
A former marijuana smuggler is at the center of a recently hacked online game in this techno thriller.

7. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A year in the social life of three twenty-somethings set in jazz-age New York City.

8. Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke
Sheriff Holland and a serial murderer share a common enemy in a small Texas border town.

9. Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Two alternating stories 50 years apart both leading to the American Museum of Natural History.

10. Aleph by Paulo Coelho
A crisis of faith prompts a journey of self-discovery from Africa to Asia.

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