PAPERBACKS

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

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

3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

Fiction

4. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky ($14.95)

5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ($14)

-- Nonfiction

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

2. Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin ($13.95)

3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ($15)

4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ($13.95)

5. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan ($16)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.