BESTSELLERS

Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2007

*--* Fiction Weeks on list 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: 4 $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 2. The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $21.99) 4 Harry Bosch is on the case after a physicist is found dead on a Mulholland Drive overlook. 3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 2 $22) A couple face a cruel reality on their wedding night. 4. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 7 (HarperCollins: $26.95) Murder mystery meets alternate history in an Alaska gone Yiddish. 5. The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley: $25.95) 1 Vampire hunter Anita Blake is targeted by a troop of enforcers and spies. 6. The Good Guy by Dean Koontz (Bantam: $27) A stonemason 2 mistaken for a hit man embarks on a trek to warn the intended target. 7. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf: $25) Violence 2 upends the lives of a man and his children working on a Northern California farm in the 1970s. 8. The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos 1 (Putnam: $26.95) Kurt Austin is on the trail of a stolen Phoenician statue. 9. Spare Change by Robert B. Parker (Putnam: $24.95) A 1 private eye and her father track down a serial killer who leaves coins beside his victims’ bodies. 10. Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett (Knopf: $24.95) A snuff 1 film sends a Bangkok police detective into the city’s netherworld of sex and violence.

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*--* Nonfiction 1. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve: 7 $24.99) The acerbic commentator argues that the world would be a better place without religion. 2. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 25 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 3. A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein (Knopf: $27.95) A 1 portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the events and people who have shaped her. 4. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 6 (HarperCollins: $24.95) How to tie knots, find true north, build treehouses and other vital skills. 5. The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (Penguin: $25.95) 3 The former vice president laments the lack of reasoned political debate on vital national issues. 6. The Secret History of the American Empire by John 1 Perkins (HarperCollins: $24.95) Tales of how captains of American industry direct foreign affairs. 7. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $32) A 10 portrait of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 8. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (Knopf: 44 $19.95) The author and screenwriter tries to reconcile herself to life among the post-bikini set. 9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, 5 Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins: $26.95) Living off the family farm. 10. ¡Ask a Mexican! by Gustavo Arellano (Scribner: $20) 3 The OC Weekly columnist’s answers to curious and sometimes hateful questions about Mexicans.

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