BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

Fiction

1. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai ($14)

2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

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

4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ($13)

5. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ($14)

Nonfiction

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

2. The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier ($14.95)

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

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

5. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert ($14.95)

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.