PAPERBACKS

Fiction

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ($15)

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

4. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky ($14.95)

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

Nonfiction

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

2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

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

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

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

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.