Books

Bestsellers List Sun., Dec. 13, 2020

Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died last week at 94, was the Austen of our times, as her L.A. novel “The Nowhere City” attests.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, author of ‘Children of the Land,’ and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of ‘The Undocumented Americans,’ share their stories with the L.A, Times Book Club on Dec. 15.

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa are teaming up to write a book about the final days of Trump’s presidency — and the beginning of Biden’s.

Authors Karla Cornejo Villavicencio and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discuss the secret lives of America’s immigrants on Dec. 15.

The planned merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster may be global but it’s bad for books both foreign and domestic.

Novelist Alison Lurie, best known for ‘Foreign Affairs’ and ‘The War Between the Tates,’ has died at 94.

Miguel Algarín, poet and a founder of New York City’s beloved Nuyorican Poets Cafe performance space, has died. He was 79.

Emma Glass, a working nurse, brings her daily struggles into the flawed but often powerfully illuminating second novel, “Rest and Be Thankful.”

The prolific novelist wrote “Perestroika in Paris,” about a horse and a dog in France, because it was soothing to focus on “kindness and trying to get by.”

Our favorite cookbooks of the season, just in time for holiday shopping

Mary Trump’s ‘The Reckoning,’ a follow-up to the bestselling exposé she wrote about her uncle Donald, will examine how ‘America is suffering from PTSD.’