Bestsellers / PAPERBACKS
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ($13.95)
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)
3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ($16)
Fiction
4. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud ($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. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz ($12.95)
4. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)
5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ($13.95)
Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.
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