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Los Angeles Times List for June 10, 2007

*--* Fiction Weeks on list 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: 2 $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 2. The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $21.99) 2 Harry Bosch is on the case after a physicist is found dead on a Mulholland Drive overlook. 3. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 5 (HarperCollins: $26.95) Murder mystery meets alternate history in an Alaska gone Yiddish. 4. Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child (Delacorte: $26) Jack 2 Reacher seeks the killer of former members of his Army special investigations unit. 5. Buddha by Deepak Chopra (HarperSanFrancisco: $24.95) A 2 tale of how Indian prince Siddhartha abandoned his inheritance to become the Buddha. 6. The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 3 (Little, Brown: $27.99) A violent attacker and a series of kidnappings shock San Francisco. 7. Falling Man by Don DeLillo (Scribner: $26) The 3 destruction of Sept. 11 from the perspectives of a survivor, his estranged wife and a terrorist. 8. Invisible Prey by John Sandford (Putnam: $26.95) 2 Minneapolis sleuth Lucas Davenport investigates a wealthy widow’s murder. 9. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck 4 Palahniuk (Doubleday: $24.95) Those who knew him tell the tale of a bad boy turned evil man. 10. Simple Genius by David Baldacci (Warner: $26.99) Two 5 ex-Secret Service agents must battle their demons on and off the job to save their relationship.

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*--* Nonfiction 1. The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (Penguin: $25.95) 1 The former vice president laments the lack of reasoned political debate on vital national issues. 2. The Reagan Diaries edited by Douglas Brinkley 1 (HarperCollins: $35) The 40th president’s daily record of the events of his two terms as president. 3. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 23 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 4. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $32) A 8 portrait of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 5. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 4 (HarperCollins: $24.95) How to tie knots, find true north, build treehouses and other skills. 6. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve: 5 $24.99) The acerbic commentator argues that the world would be a better place without religion. 7. Rickles’ Book by Don Rickles with David Ritz (Simon & 2 Schuster: $24) The stand-up comedian recalls his friends and his years on stage and TV. 8. Things I’ve Said, but Probably Shouldn’t Have by 1 Bruce Dern et al. (Wiley: $24.95) The actor recounts working with Hitchcock, Kazan and Corman. 9. Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill (Nation Books: $26.95) 3 How a military contractor became a combat force providing security in Iraq for U.S. troops. 10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, 4 Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins: $26.95) Living off the family farm.

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