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The week’s bestselling books, Jan. 7

Southern California Bestsellers
(Los Angeles Times)
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Hardcover fiction

1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper: $32) The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.

2. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Harper: $30) At a Michigan orchard, a woman tells her three daughters about a long-ago romance.

3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Riverhead: $28) The discovery of a skeleton in Pottstown, Pa., opens out to a story of integration and community.

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4. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House: $28) A sweeping historical tale focused on a single house in the New England woods.

5. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf: $28) Lifelong BFFs collaborate on a wildly successful video game.

6. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books: $30) In the sequel to the bestselling “Fourth Wing,” the dragon-rider faces even greater tests.

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7. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled: Red Tower Books: $30) A young woman reluctantly enters a brutal dragon-riding war college in this YA fantasy.

8. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove: $20) During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery.

9. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Hanover Square: $20) A Tokyo cafe gives customers the chance to travel back in time.

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10. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday: $29) In the 1960s, a female chemist goes on to be a single parent, then a celebrity chef.

Hardcover nonfiction

1. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (Penguin: $32) The music producer’s guidance on how to be a creative person.

2. How to Know a Person by David Brooks (Random House: $30) The New York Times columnist explores the power of seeing and being seen.

3. The Wager by David Grann (Doubleday: $30) The story of the shipwreck of an 18th-century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.

4. Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney (Little, Brown: $32) The former GOP representative recounts her fight to impeach and investigate Donald Trump.

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5. My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand (Viking: $47) The multi-hyphenate icon dishes on her career in music and Hollywood.

6. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (Gallery: $33) The pop star, long confined in a conservatorship, finally tells her full story.

7. Outlive by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford (Harmony: $32) A science-based self-help guide to living longer.

8. Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Penguin: $28) The former action star and governor offers seven tools for life.

9. The Cookie That Changed My Life by Nancy Silverton, Carolynn Carreño (Knopf: $40) Recipes for more than 100 cakes, cookies, muffins and pies.

10. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $35) The life of the world’s richest man.

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Paperback fiction

1. Trust by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead: $17)

2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner: $19)

3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Penguin: $18)

4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury: $19)

5. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Vintage: $18)

6. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Anchor: $18)

7. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne: $18)

8. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Celadon: $18)

9. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Atria: $17)

10. Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman (Berkley: $18)

Paperback nonfiction

1. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (Vintage: $18)

2. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Vintage: $17)

3. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17)

4. How to Smile (Mindfulness Essentials #10) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Jason DeAntonis (Illus.) (Parallax: $10)

5. Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (Harper: $19)

6. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (Penguin: $19)

7. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (Picador: $20)

8. The Storyteller by Dave Grohl (Dey Street: $22)

9. Everything Now by Rosecrans Baldwin (Picador: $19)

10. Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami (Vintage: $17)

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