December 24, 2017 03:00 AM
UPDATED 3 MINUTES AGO
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
Fiction
1."Artemis," by Andy Weir (Crown: $27) A small-time smuggler living in a lunar colony attempts to pull off a heist.
2."Manhattan Beach," by Jennifer Egan (Scribner: $27) The first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II seeks to uncover the reason for her father's disappearance.
3."Little Fires Everywhere," by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press: $27) A new family and an adoption upend a quiet Cleveland suburb.
4."Uncommon Type," by Tom Hanks (Knopf: $26.95) The debut work of fiction by the Oscar-winning actor is a collection of warm and witty short stories.
5."Origin," by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $29.95) A billionaire futurist and former student of Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon, sends him on another quest to uncover the questions of human existence.
6."Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway," by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $13.95) Can the Heffley family survive a tropical holiday vacation?
7."Lincoln in the Bardo," by George Saunders (Random House: $28) President Lincoln grieves the loss of his son and is haunted by ghosts.
8."The Rooster Bar," by John Grisham (Doubleday: $28.95) Three students at a third-tier law school open a fake law firm.
9."Two Kinds of Truth," by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $29) While investigating the murder of two pharmacists, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch.
10."In the Midst of Winter," by Isabel Allende (Atria: $28) Trapped in a Brooklyn snowstorm the lives of two NYU professors and an immigrant worker intersect.