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What L.A. is reading
Every week the Southern California Booksellers Association canvasses its member stores to find out what readers are buying. Here are the top fives from today's best-seller lists.
| Hardcover Fiction | Hardcover Non-fiction |
| The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis The Patriots Club, Christopher Reich No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy |
Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, Kevin Trudeau On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt 1776, David McCullough Blink, Malcolm Gladwell |
| Trade Paperback Fiction | Trade Paperback Nonfiction |
| The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger The Alchemist (10th Anniversary Ed.), Paulo Coelho The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler |
Bad Cat, Jim Edgar Sudoku Easy Presented by Will Shortz, Vol. 1, Will Shortz Sudoku Easy to Hard: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles, Will Shortz (Ed.) The Book of Sudoku: The Hot New Puzzle Craze, Michael Mepham 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Patricia Schultz |
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| Banks, automakers - hell, why not pornographers? Joe "Girls Gone Wild" Francis and Larry "Hustler" Flynt are asking Congress for $5 billion.
| Somehow the guy still manages to come off as being even more obnoxious than last we remember. He insists that he'll live forever.
| The MTA's Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive jumps into Web 2.0 with enthusiasm, with Flickr photos and YouTube clips.
| Chuck Todd and his goatee
| An appreciation
| New signs and meters are already up in Westwood Village.
City Controller Laura Chick is absolutely correct when she insists on the power to examine the performance of other elected officials.
At the top of Chicken Corner's wish list for quite some time has been a bookstore -- an independent shop...
It's my one-year anniversary of joining the LA Times. Sad note -- the job lasted just 10 months.
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