BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

Fiction

4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

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

Nonfiction

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

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

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

4. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle ($14)

5. Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin (Running Press: $13.95)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.