Complete book coverage for June 7, 2009

A talk with bestselling mystery writer Lawrence Block about his career, his obsession with racewalking and his legacy when he’s gone.

What’s on your summer reading list?

In his debut novel, a former technical writer at Oracle writes about the world on a political and moral precipice.

The new animated film has a variety of literary antecedents, including fairy tales and even ‘Heidi.’

In her latest novel, Lipman practices a kinder form of satire that still has social bite.

A double-barreled farewell, in poetry and prose, from an American icon.

Stories of what happens when Bosnian exiles are cut off from their homeland and stranded in an unfamiliar American landscape.

James P. White’s collection of random encounters with strangers on the streets of Los Angeles isn’t about wanting things to be different; it’s about being interested.

Fiction Weeks on list1.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. 465.Wicked Prey by John Sandford (Putnam: $27.95) Criminals with a grudge crash the Republican National Convention in St.

Fiction 1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith ($12.95) 2.