Malibu’s bestsellers for April 2010 highlight ones that have been made into, or will become, movies: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo;” “Eat, Pray, Love;” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid;” “The Lightning Thief;” “Snow White” and “James and the Giant Peach.” The cross-pollination among art forms is taking the culture by storm-across all age levels, fiction and nonfiction, in all media-with the new Jerry Weintraub memoir, the Oprah bio and Chelsea Handler’s latest hilarious romp. We like our entertainment, but books of more substance also dot the list: Pollan’s “Food Rules” and Gregory Boyle’s powerful, timely and inspirational memoir, “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.”
Fiction
1. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” by Stieg Larsson, paperback, Vintage,$14.95
2. “The Girl Who Played With Fire,” by Stieg Larsson, hardcover, Knopf, $24.95
3. “Little Bee,” by Chris Cleave, paper, Simon & Schuster, $14
4. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett, hardcover, Putnam, $24.95
5. “Imperfect Birds,” by Anne Lamott, hardcover, Riverhead, $25.95
6. “Cutting for Stone,” by Abraham Verghese, paperback, Vintage, $15.95
7. “Solar,” by Ian McEwan,” hardcover, Nan A. Talese, $26.95
8. “Olive Kitteridge,” by Elizabeth Strout, paperback, Random House, $14
9. “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War,” by Karl Marlantes, hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.95
10. “Let the Great World Spin,” by Colum McCann, paper, $15.00, Random House
NONFICTION
1. “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats,” by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, hardcover, Material World, $40
2. “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” by Michael Lewis, hardcover, W. W. Norton, $27.95
3. “The Lonely Sky: The Personal Story of a Record-Breaking Experimental Test Pilot,” by William Bridgeman with Jacqueline Hazard, paperback, iUniverse, $21.95
4. “Eat, Pray, Love,” by Elizabeth Gilbert, paper, Penguin, $15
5. “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion,” by Gregory Boyle, hardcover, Free Press, $25
6. “Food Rules,” by Michael Pollan, paperback, Penguin, $11
7. “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang,” by Chelsea Handler, hardcover, Grand Central Publishing, $25.99
8. “When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man,” by Jerry Weintraub, hardcover, Twelve, $25.99
9. “Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen,” by Christopher McDougall, hardcover, Knopf, $24.95
10. “Oprah: A Biography,” by Kitty Kelley, hardcover, Crown, $30
KIDS
1. “The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary,” by Jeff Kinney, hardcover, Amulet, $14.95
2. “The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and The Olympians, Book 1),” by Rick Riordan, paperback, Disney-Hyperion, $7.99
3. “Wipe Clean Letters,” by Roger Priddy, board book, Priddy Books, $8.95
4. “Dogs,” by Emily Gravett, hardcover, Simon & Schuster, $15.99
5. “Wave,” by Suzy Lee, hardcover, Chronicle Books, $15.99
6. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” by Random House Disney, paperback, RH/Disney, $3.99
7. “Stormbreaker,” by Anthony Horowitz, paperback, Speak, $7.99
8. “James and the Giant Peach,” by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, paperback, Puffin, $6.99
9. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” by Eric Carle, board book, Philomel, $15.99
10. “King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table,” by Roger Lancelyn Green, paperback, Puffin, $4.99
Booklist provided by Diesel, A Bookstore