PAPERBACKS

1. The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud ($14.95)

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

3. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers ($15)

Fiction

4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

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

-- Nonfiction

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

2. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan ($16)

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

4. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

5. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman ($16)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.