Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

Southern California Rating

FICTION

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*--* Last Week Weeks on List 1 THE NANNY DIARIES by Emma McLaughlin 1 10 and Nicola Kraus (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The travails of an overworked and underappreciated Park Avenue caregiver 2 ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan (Nan A. 3 9 Talese/Doubleday: $26) A haunting novel of guilt and redemption that follows several lives through the chaos of England in World War II 3 CITY OF BONES by Michael Connelly 2 3 (Little, Brown: $25.95) Detective Harry Bosch is after the truth behind the 20-year-old murder of a child, whose bones are discovered in Laurel Canyon 4 THE SHELTERS OF STONE by Jean M. Auel 7 2 (Crown: $28.95) Cavewoman Ayla has to negotiate warring tribes and win over her beloved’s family in the latest “Earth’s Children” installment 5 SEA GLASS by Anita Shreve (Little, 5 3 Brown: $25.95) Newlyweds move to a New Hampshire beach in the 1920s, before the Great Depression changes their lives 6 DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL by Mary Higgins 4 3 Clark (Simon and Schuster: $26) A journalist struggles to keep her sister’s killer in prison despite his wealthy and influential family 7 ATTACK OF THE CLONES by R.A. Salvatore 11 2 (Del Rey: $26) In “Star Wars: Episode II,” Anakin Skywalker challenges his Jedi master and falls in love with a beautiful diplomat 8 EVERYTHING’S EVENTUAL by Stephen King 10 7 (Scribner: $28) A collection of stories about close encounters with the dead and near-dead; includes King’s e-book, “Riding the Bullet.” 9 A THOUSAND COUNTRY ROADS by Robert -- 1 James Waller (John M. Hardy: $19.95) In this epilogue to “The Bridges of Madison County,” we learn what happened to the two lovers after their affair 10 THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen 9 34 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $26) The saga of a dysfunctional Midwestern family living at the end of the 20th century 11 EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED by Jonathan 8 3 Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin: $24) A comic novel about a man’s search for his family’s past in Ukraine and the history of a forgotten shtetl 12 THE SUMMONS by John Grisham (Doubleday: 6 13 $27.95) A man discovers $3 million in his dead father’s house and hides it from his prodigal brother and a mysterious extortioner 13 THE COMPANY by Robert Littel (Overlook -- 2 Press: $28.95) It’s spy versus spy in this epic Cold War thriller, which has CIA spooks searching for a mole in their midst 14 BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE -- 16 SEAMSTRESS by Daj Sijie (Alfred A. Knopf: $18) Two Chinese youths use classic Western literature to free their minds in the face of communist re-education 15 THE BONDWOMAN’S NARRATIVE by Hannah 14 3 Crafts (Warner: $24.95) Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. edited this long-lost manuscript, possibly the first novel by a former slave

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Southern California Rating

NONFICTION

*--* Last Week Weeks on List 1 STUPID WHITE MEN ... AND OTHER SORRY 1 11 EXCUSES FOR THE STATE OF THE NATION by Michael Moore (ReganBooks: $24.95) Lampooning the Bush administration and more 2 THE HEALTHY KITCHEN by Andrew Weill and -- 1 Rosie Daley (Alfred A. Knopf: $24.95) Navigating around fatty, unhealthy foods to follow an ideal, appetizing diet plan in your own home 3 MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert A. Caro 2 2 (Alfred A. Knopf: $35) How LBJ awakened a moribund Senate through civil rights reform and set his sights on the White House 4 LUCKY MAN by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion: 5 5 $22.95) A heartfelt, candid memoir by the celebrity, describing his rise to fame and the effect of Parkinson’s disease on his life 5 SELF MATTERS by Phillip C. McGraw 4 16 (Simon & Schuster: $25) A self-improvement guru and “Oprah” regular teaches readers how to “create your life from the inside out.” 6 THE WISDOM OF MENOPAUSE by Christiane 3 11 Northrup (Bantam: $27.95) A physician describes symptoms and treatments for menopause 7 A MIND AT A TIME by Mel Levine (Simon & 7 5 Schuster: $26) A pediatrics professor argues that schools need to teach children based on their individual learning styles 8 BLINDED BY THE RIGHT by David Brock 12 6 (Crown: $25.95) Conspiracies, schemes and character assassination are the focus of these confessions by a self-described “ex-conservative.” 9 FIND ME by Rosie O’Donnell (Warner: 8 3 $23.95) The talk-show host writes about how helping a pregnant young girl led to her decision to end her daily television show 10 A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN by Maya 6 3 Angelou (Random House: $23.95) The author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” continues her account of life during the 1960s and ‘70s 11 WHAT WENT WRONG by Bernard Lewis 14 11 (Oxford University: $23) An esteemed historian describes the Islamic Middle East’s fall from enlightenment into repression and tyranny 12 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? by Spencer Johnson 10 110 (Putnam: $19.95) The co-author of “The One-Minute Manager” uses the parable of mice in a maze to discuss managing change 13 ODD GIRL OUT by Rachel Simmons 15 2 (Harcourt Brace: $25) How girls are socialized to avoid conflict and not express anger, which the author says leads to a culture of hidden aggression 14 BEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY -- 16 ONASSIS edited by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion: $21.95) A selection of Jackie’s favorite verse and some of her own, introduced by her daughter 15 THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL by Stephen 13 18 Hawking (Bantam: $35) The celebrated physicist offers a look at space, time and the origin and future of the universe

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