Los Angeles Times bestsellers for March 22, 2009
| Fiction | weeks on list | |
| 1. | Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult (Atria: $27.95) A family is thrown into turmoil when they sue over their daughter’s medical condition. | 1 |
| 2. | 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. | 5 |
| 3. | 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. | 8 |
| 4. | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. | 35 |
| 5. | Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality. | 32 |
| 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. | 32 |
| 7. | Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster: $24) The lives of two married British journalists and a Nigerian teenager collide. | 2 |
| 8. | 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 N.Y. law firm, putting his life in danger. | 6 |
| 9. | 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. | 4 |
| 10. | Promises in Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam: $26.95) A cop killer is hunted down in New York City in 2060. | 2 |
| 11. | 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. | 3 |
| 12. | 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 during World War II. | 1 |
| 13. | Night and Day by Robert B. Parker (Putnam: $25.95) In the eighth Jesse Stone novel, it’s up to the police chief to catch a voyeur dubbed “The Night Hawk.” | 1 |
| 14. | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $24.95) A journalist explores the cold-case disappearance of a Swedish teen heiress. | 9 |
| 15. | The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $25.99) Aliens take over the minds of humans. | 30 |
| Nonfiction | ||
| 1. | Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $27.99) An exploration of the background of high achievers. | 17 |
| 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. | 6 |
| 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. | 6 |
| 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. | 5 |
| 5. | 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. | 24 |
| 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. | 45 |
| 7. | The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) Life’s secrets, distilled. | 101 |
| 8. | The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday: $27.50) British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett’s quest to find an ancient Amazonian society. | 2 |
| 9. | Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27.95) Solutions to overpopulation and the global-warming crisis. | 20 |
| 10. | How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin: $25) Insight and understanding of human decision-making. | 4 |
| 11. | Rubies in the Orchard by Lynda Resnick with Francis Wilkinson (Broadway Business: $24.95) A marketing guru shares her strategies. | 1 |
| 12. | When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (Little, Brown: $25.99) Musings on life and smoking. | 28 |
| 13. | The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman (W.W. Norton: $24.95) A look to the past for the causes of the credit crisis. | 5 |
| 14. | The Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi (Threshold Editions: $28) The reasons against an Obama presidency and why he should be defeated. | 7 |
| 15. | Pieces of My Heart by Robert J. Wagner and Scott Eyman (HarperEntertainment: $25.95) A memoir of the actor’s five decades in showbiz. | 7 |
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