PAPERBACKS

Fiction

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

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

3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

4. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky ($14.95)

5. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ($15)

Nonfiction

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

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

3. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

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

5. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz ($19.95)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.