BESTSELLERS

Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2007

*--* Fiction Weeks on list 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: 5 $25.95) Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 2. The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $21.99) 5 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: 3 $22) A couple face a cruel reality on their wedding night. 4. Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin 1 (HarperCollins: $25.95) The sweet spirit of “Tales of the City” returns, older and wiser. 5. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 8 (HarperCollins: $26.95) Murder mystery meets alternate history in an Alaska gone Yiddish. 6. The Navigator by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos 2 (Putnam: $26.95) Kurt Austin is on the trail of a stolen Phoenician statue. 7. Double Take by Catherine Coulter (Putnam: $25.95) An FBI 1 agent saves a drowning woman whose husband was recently murdered. 8. The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader (Grand Central: 1 $25.99) The assassin hero of thrillers by the late Robert Ludlum returns to join the war on terror. 9. Blaze by Richard Bachman (Scribner: $25) An abused boy 1 turns to delinquency in this early novel by the alter ego of Stephen King. 10. Buddha by Deepak Chopra (HarperSanFrancisco: $24.95) A 4 tale of how the Indian prince Siddhartha abandoned his inheritance and became the Buddha.

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*--* Nonfiction 1. The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (Penguin: $25.95) 4 The former vice president laments the lack of reasoned political debate on vital national issues. 2. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown (Doubleday: 2 $27.50) A dishy look at the late princess of Wales from the former editor of Tatler and Vanity Fair. 3. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve: 8 $24.99) The acerbic commentator argues that the world would be a better place without religion. 4. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 26 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 5. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 7 (HarperCollins: $24.95) How to tie knots, find true north, build treehouses and other vital skills. 6. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $32) A 11 portrait of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 7. The Reagan Diaries edited by Douglas Brinkley 3 (HarperCollins: $35) The 40th president’s daily record of the events of his two terms as president. 8. Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen (Random House: $21.95) A 1 collection of vintage Allen rants, along with some new humor. 9. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & 12 Giroux: $22) A Sierra Leone boy soldier tells of mass slaughter and starting over at a refugee camp. 10. A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein (Knopf: $27.95) 2 An in-depth portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the people who have influenced her.

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