Los Angeles Times bestsellers for April 12, 2009
| Fiction | weeks on list | |
| 1. | True Detectives by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine: $27) Two crime-solving brothers find themselves working the same missing-persons case. | 1 |
| 2. | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. | 38 |
| 3. | Long Lost by Harlan Coben (Dutton: $27.95) Private eye Myron Bolitar takes the case of a woman accused of murdering her ex. | 1 |
| 4. | Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality. | 35 |
| 5. | The Long Fall by Walter Mosley (Riverhead: $25.95) A former bad guy turned P.I. tries to redeem himself. | 1 |
| 6. | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $12.95) Greg’s dad enlists him in sports to toughen him up. | 11 |
| 7. | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation. | 35 |
| 8. | The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $25.99) Aliens take over the minds of humans. | 33 |
| 9. | The Women by T.C. Boyle (Viking: $27.95) Frank Lloyd Wright’s life as told by four women who loved him. | 7 |
| 10. | The Associate by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) A law school grad’s dark secret is used to blackmail him into stealing files from a New York law firm. | 9 |
| 11. | Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster: $24) The lives of two married British journalists and a Nigerian teenager collide. | 5 |
| 12. | Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult (Atria: $27.95) A family is thrown into turmoil when they sue over their daughter’s medical condition. | 4 |
| 13. | Honolulu by Alan Brennert (St. Martin’s Press: $24.95) A young Korean “picture bride” journeys to Hawaii in 1914. | 1 |
| 14. | Outcast (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi Book 1) by Aaron Allston (Del Rey: $27) The Jedi become targets of a media-driven witch hunt. | 1 |
| 15. | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Ballantine: $24) The lifelong friendship of two children separated during the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II. | 3 |
| Nonfiction | ||
| 1. | Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey ( Amistad: $23.99) The talk-show host lets women inside the mind-set of a man. | 9 |
| 2. | Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions: $25) The talk-radio host’s call to revitalize the conservative vision in America. | 2 |
| 3. | Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $27.99) An exploration of the background of high achievers. | 20 |
| 4. | House of Cards by William D. Cohan (Doubleday: $27.95) A narrative chronicling the fall of Bear Stearns and the Wall Street meltdown. | 3 |
| 5. | The Mirror Effect by Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young (Harper: $26.99) “Celebrity Rehab” host Pinsky explores the media’s obsession with celebrity and how young people imitate this behavior. | 1 |
| 6. | How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin: $25) Insight and understanding of human decision-making. | 5 |
| 7. | The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday: $27.50) Col. Percy Fawcett’s quest to find an ancient Amazonian society. | 5 |
| 8. | The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion: $21.95) A professor’s terminal cancer inspires a call to seize life’s moments. | 48 |
| 9. | The Yankee Years by Joe Torre (Doubleday: $26.95) Behind the scenes of what it really took to try to keep the Yankees on top. | 9 |
| 10. | A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall (Broadway: $21.95) The relationship among two men and a lion adopted from Harrods and set free in Africa. | 2 |
| 11. | The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) Life’s secrets, distilled. | 104 |
| 12. | The Inaugural Address 2009 by Barack Obama (Penguin: $12) A keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of the 44th president. | 8 |
| 13. | Dewey by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter (Grand Central: $19.99) The impact that a cat named Dewey Readmore Books had on an Iowa library. | 27 |
| 14. | High Voltage Tattoo by Kat Von D (Publisher: $29.99) The reality-show star shares her life story and perspective on today’s global tattoo culture. | 1 |
| 15. | Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox (Hyperion: $25.99) The actor’s emotional and spiritual outlook in his struggle with Parkinson’s disease. | 1 |
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