Bestsellers List Sun., Sept. 27, 2020

SoCal Bestsellers

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (Europa: $26) A teenage girl comes of age, with difficulty, in ’90s Naples, Italy.

2. Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf: $29) The president politicizes the mysterious death of a high-society Palm Beach luminary, placing the blame on immigrants.

3. The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett (Viking: $36) At the end of the Dark Ages, England is attacked from two sides in this prequel to “The Pillars of the Earth.�

4. All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny (Minotaur: $29) Chief Inspector Gamache visits Paris with his family and gets entangled in a mystery.

5. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf: $28) A Stanford PhD candidate and Ghanaian immigrant seeks to cure depression and addiction.

6. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead: $27) Identical twin sisters run away from their small Black community in the South and live very different lives.

7. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Atria: $28) After a botched bank robbery the perpetrator takes eight hostages in an apartment.

8. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury: $27) The long-awaited follow-up to “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.�

9. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey: $27) A woman is summoned to a mysterious home in rural Mexico to rescue her newlywed cousin.

10. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland: $29) While visiting family in Cornwall, England, Private Detective Cormoran Strike is drawn into a long-cold case of a missing person.

Hardcover nonfiction

1. Rage by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster: $30) The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s account of President Trump’s conduct as the COVID-19 pandemic spread.

2. Disloyal by Michael Cohen (Skyhorse: $33) A tell-all from President Trump’s former lawyer-fixer.

3. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House: $32) A hidden caste system influences the lives of Americans.

4. Compromised by Peter Strzok (Houghton Mifflin : $30) The former FBI special agent details the investigation into foreign influence over President Trump.

5. Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Dial: $28) The activist explores the peace that comes when we stop striving to meet the world’s expectations.

6. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World: $27) The author weaves ethics, history, law, science and personal narrative into a work that illuminates how racism works.

7. Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump (Simon & Schuster: $28) A tell-all from the niece of President Trump.

8. Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (Gallery: $28) A tell-all book from the friend of the first lady.

9. Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty (Simon & Schuster: $27) A guide to using meditation and mental discipline to improve your life.

10. Eat a Peach by David Chang, Gabe Ulla (Clarkson Potter: $28) The Korean American chef describes his rise to the top in the restaurant business.

Paperback fiction

1. Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace: $18)

2. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Grand Central: $17)

3. When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole (Morrow: $17)

4. Circe by Madeline Miller (Back Bay: $17)

5. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Anchor: $17)

6. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Penguin: $17)

7. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead: $17)

8. Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House: $17)

9. The Overstory by Richard Powers (Norton: $19)

10. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon: $16)

Paperback nonfiction

1. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon: $16)

2. Intimations by Zadie Smith (Penguin: $11)

3. The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris (Penguin: $18)

4. My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem (Central Recovery: $18)

5. My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Simon & Schuster: $18)

6. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Seal: $17)

7. Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (Vintage: $16)

8. Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (Bold Type: $20)

9. Discovering Griffith Park by Casey Schreiner (Mountaineers: $19)

10. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed: $18)