PAPERBACKS

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

2. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky ($14.95)

3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ($15)

Fiction

4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ($14.95)

5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ($13.95)

-- 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. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.