LA's favorite books 2015!
I own several book stores in the Los Angeles area, and I wanted to share the most popular books sold at my stores over the past 3 months.
FICTION
1. The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
3. Prudence, by Gail Carriger
4. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral, by Mary Doria Russell
5. A Dangerous Place, by Jacqueline Winspear
6. The Bookseller, by Cynthia Swanson
7. The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
8. Endangered, by C.J. Box
9. Blue Labyrinth, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
10. A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler
NONFICTION
1. Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, by Tom Rath and James K. Harter
2. The Motivation Manifesto, by Brendon Burchard
3. The Hormone Reset Diet: Heal Your Metabolism to Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 21 Days, by Sara Gottfried
4. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson
5. Everything I Need To Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book, by Diane Muldrow
6. Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas, by Jeremy Gutsche
7. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
8. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, by Marie Kondo
9. H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
10. American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest,by Hannah Nordhaus
PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Martian, by Andy Weir
2. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
3. Lexicon, by Maxx Barry
4. Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. The Husband's Secret,by Liane Moriarty
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown
2. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
3. Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, by Arianna Huffington
4. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
5. The Art of Thinking Clearly, by Rolf Dobelli