Los Angeles Times bestsellers for June 7, 2009
| Fiction | Weeks on list | |
| 1. | The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion: $17.99) Percy Jackson and his army of demigods battle to stop the Lord of Time. | 4 |
| 2. | Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child (Delacorte: $27) The capture of a suspected suicide bomber on a N.Y. subway causes a chain of global events. | 1 |
| 3. | Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality. | 43 |
| 4. | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. | 46 |
| 5. | Wicked Prey by John Sandford (Putnam: $27.95) Criminals with a grudge crash the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. | 3 |
| 6. | Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday: $24.95) Terrorists disguised as foreign exchange students living with American families plot mass destruction. | 3 |
| 7. | Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central: $26.99) Special Agent Pendergast returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. | 3 |
| 8. | Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow: $26.99) An ex-bank robber is seduced by his former jail mate’s girlfriend and his fortune. | 2 |
| 9. | Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon: $23.95) In the latest installment of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe is in need of her own investigative skills. | 5 |
| 10. | First Family by David Baldacci (Grand Central: $27.99) A child is kidnapped from a birthday party held at Camp David. | 6 |
| 11. | Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday: $24.95) An African American adolescent’s tale of a summer spent in Sag Harbor with his brother. | 1 |
| 12. | 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. | 19 |
| 13. | Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Ace: $25.95) Sookie Stackhouse finds herself a pawn in a war with a race of unhuman beings. | 4 |
| 14. | The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $25.99) Aliens take over the minds of humans. | 39 |
| 15. | Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Scribner: $25) A young woman must decide whether to return to her lucrative life in 1950s New York or remain in Ireland. | 2 |
| Nonfiction | ||
| 1. | Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $27.99) An exploration of the background of high achievers. | 28 |
| 2. | Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions: $25) The talk-radio personality’s call to revitalize the conservative vision in America. | 10 |
| 3. | Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley (Twelve: $24.99) The son of William F. and Patricia Buckley tells of life with the high-powered couple and how he coped with their deaths. | 4 |
| 4. | Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards (Broadway: $22.95) The wife of the former vice presidential candidate reflects on facing life’s adversities. | 3 |
| 5. | 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. | 17 |
| 6. | 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. | 56 |
| 7. | The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow (Gotham: $26) Eleven childhood friends from Iowa maintain enduring friendships throughout the years. | 4 |
| 8. | This Is Water by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown: $14.99) Thoughts and advice from a 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College. | 3 |
| 9. | The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss (Crown: $19.95) A blueprint for living life on your own terms. | 17 |
| 10. | Promises I Made My Mother by Sam Haskell (Ballantine: $24) A Hollywood agent reveals how he kept his pledge to his mother to live a decent life. | 2 |
| 11. | How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin: $25) Insight and understanding of human decision-making. | 7 |
| 12. | Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou (Metropolitan: $25) Stories and wisdom dedicated to the daughter the poet never had. | 3 |
| 13. | Treat Her Like a Princess by Denise Hazen (Bright Sky Press: $14.95) A breast cancer survivor offers guidance on how to support friends diagnosed with the same condition. | 1 |
| 14. | How to Win a Cosmic War by Reza Aslan (Random House: $26) An exploration of the ideologies behind jihadism and why we shouldn’t cast conflicts in good-vs.-evil terms. | 1 |
| 15. | A-Rod by Selena Roberts (Harper: $26.99) A biography of the baseball star, including the steroid controversy. | 1 |
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