Los Angeles Times bestsellers for the week of March 15, 2009
| Fiction | weeks on list | |
| 1. | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney(Amulet: $12.95) Greg’s dad enlists him in organized sports in order to toughen him up. | 7 |
| 2. | Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality. | 31 |
| 3. | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. | 34 |
| 4. | The Associate by John Grisham (Doubleday : $27.95) Sinister forces use a law-school grad’s dark secret to blackmail him into working as a spy at his new firm, putting his life in danger. | 5 |
| 5. | Promises in Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam Adult: $26.95) A cop killer is hunted down in New York City in 2060. | 1 |
| 6. | 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. | 31 |
| 7. | Drood by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown: $26.95) An imagining of Charles Dickens’ last years and his obsession with the dark side of London. | 3 |
| 8. | Fool by Christopher Moore (William Morrow: $26.99) King Lear’s jester and an apprentice set out to save the kingdom in this comedy of errors. | 3 |
| 9. | The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker (Dutton: $26.95) A sheriff sets out to find the gunman who shot his new partner. | 3 |
| 10. | Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster: $24) The lives of two married British journalists and a Nigerian teenager collide. | 1 |
| 11. | White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison (Eos: $25.99) A bounty hunter and witch avenge the murder of her lover. | 1 |
| 12. | The Women by T.C. Boyle (Viking: $27.95) Frank Lloyd Wright’s life as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him. | 4 |
| 13. | Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy (Knopf: $26.95) A visiting doctor becomes entrenched in the lives of the staff at a community clinic in Dublin. | 2 |
| 14. | Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam: $27.95) Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta travels to New York to examine a psychiatric patient at Bellevue. | 7 |
| 15. | All the Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson (William Morrow: $25.99) The plot of “Othello” comes to life in the death of a local theater’s costume designer. | 1 |
| Nonfiction | ||
| 1. | Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $27.99) An exploration of the background of high achievers. | 16 |
| 2. | 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. | 5 |
| 3. | 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 of the baseball world. | 5 |
| 4. | The Inaugural Address 2009 by Barack Obama (Penguin: $12) A keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of the 44th president with the words of Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson. | 4 |
| 5. | Obama: The Historic Journey by the New York Times staff (Callaway: $40) The road to the White House. | 2 |
| 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. | 44 |
| 7. | The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) Life’s secrets, distilled. | 100 |
| 8. | 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 and its patrons. | 23 |
| 9. | How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin: $25) Insight and understanding of human decision-making. | 3 |
| 10. | Angels & Ages by Adam Gopnik (Knopf: $24.95) A search for the men behind the myths, Lincoln and Darwin, both born on the same day. | 3 |
| 11. | The Black Hand by Chris Blatchford (William Morrow: $25.95) An in-depth look at the Mexican Mafia told through the biography of Rene “Boxer” Enriquez. | 2 |
| 12. | Snark by David Denby (Simon & Schuster: $15.95) Critic and author Denby discusses the meaning and history of snark. | 2 |
| 13. | Breakthrough by Suzanne Somers (Crown: $25.95) Advice on healthy living and the newest treatments for longevity. | 8 |
| 14. | The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday: $27.50) British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett’s quest to find an ancient Amazonian society. | 1 |
| 15. | The Great Depression Ahead by Harry S. Dent Jr. (Free Press: $27) The economic forecaster shares his techniques and explains their effect on the economic downturn. | 2 |
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