PAPERBACKS

1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ($13.95)

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ($16)

3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

Fiction

4. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud ($14.95)

5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards ($14)

Nonfiction

1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert ($15)

2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ($14)

4. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ($15)

5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ($13.95)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.