BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

Fiction

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

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ($14)

3. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky ($14.95)

4. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ($15)

5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

Nonfiction

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

2. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ($13.95)

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

4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ($15)

5. The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine ($14.95)

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.