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Los Angeles Times List for June 3, 2007

*--* Fiction weeks on list 1. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon 4 (HarperCollins: $26.95) Murder mystery meets alternate history in an Alaska gone Yiddish. 2. Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child (Delacorte: $26) Jack 1 Reacher seeks the killer of former members of his Army special investigations unit. 3. Invisible Prey by John Sandford (Putnam: $26.95) 1 Minneapolis sleuth Lucas Davenport investigates a wealthy widow’s murder. 4. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck 3 Palahniuk (Doubleday: $24.95) Those who knew him tell the tale of a bad boy-turned-evil man. 5. The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 2 (Little, Brown: $27.99) A violent attacker and a series of kidnappings shock San Francisco. 6. Simple Genius by David Baldacci (Warner: $26.99) Two 4 ex-Secret Service agents must battle their demons to save their relationship. 7. The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $21.99) 1 Harry Bosch is on the case after a physicist is found dead on a Mulholland Drive overlook. 8. After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Knopf: $22.95) The 2 underbelly of a Tokyo night is explored through two very different sisters and their coteries. 9. Falling Man by Don DeLillo (Scribner: $26) The 2 destruction of Sept. 11 from the perspectives of a survivor, his estranged wife and a terrorist. 10. The Tourists by Jeff Hobbs (Simon & Schuster: $24) A trio 3 of Yale alumni get caught up in a tangled tale of illicit romance.

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*--* Nonfiction 1. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 22 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 2. Einstein by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster: $32) A 7 portrait of the life and genius of Albert Einstein, whose curiosity changed physics forever. 3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, 3 Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp (HarperCollins: $26.95) Living off the family farm. 4. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden 3 (HarperCollins: $24.95) How to tie knots, find true north, build treehouses and other vital skills. 5. At the Center of the Storm by George Tenet 3 (HarperCollins: $30) The former CIA director defends himself and the agency in the wake of Sept. 11. 6. God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve: 4 $24.99) The acerbic commentator argues that the world would be a better place without religion. 7. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & 8 Giroux: $22) A Sierra Leone boy soldier tells of mass slaughter and starting over at a refugee camp. 8. Presidential Courage by Michael Beschloss (Simon & 2 Schuster: $28) How U.S. leaders from 1789 to 1989 faced challenges with bravery and wisdom. 9. Rickles’ Book by Don Rickles with David Ritz (Simon & 1 Schuster: $24) The stand-up comedian recalls his friends and his years on stage and TV. 10. The Exceptional Presenter by Timothy J. Koegel 1 (Greenleaf: $21.95) How to become an effective communicator in today’s global economy.

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