LOS ANGELES TIMES / Jan. 25, 2009

PAPERBACKS

Fiction

*--* Fiction weeks on list 1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella 27 must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 2. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) 24 The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality. 3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by 24 Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation. 4. A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Knopf: $23.95) A slave girl is 8 sold by her mother in late-1600s America to give her a better life. 5. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon: $23.95) An 7 equities analyst’s life is upended after Sept. 11, when his wife and son flee New York for London. 6. Black Ops by W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam: $26.95) A task 2 force agent tracks down terrorists who murdered an American diplomat in Buenos Aires. 7. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco: 26 $25.95) A mute dog breeder is banished by his uncle a la “Hamlet.” 8. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf: $25) Stories 20 of immigrants and their children struggling with U.S. culture. 9. The Private Patient by P.D. James (Knopf: $25.95) A 7 murder investigation focuses on the staff of a plastic-surgery clinic. 10. Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s Press: 2 $27.95) A bounty hunter tracks a killer lurking in the woods of New Jersey. *--*

*--* Nonfiction 1. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown: $27.99) 9 An exploration of the background of high achievers. 2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow 37 (Hyperion: $21.95) A professor’s terminal cancer inspires a call to seize life’s moments. 3. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (Simon & 3 Schuster: $21) The actress and writer’s humorous confession to alcoholism, drug addiction and mental breakdowns. 4. Guilty by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum: $27.95) The 1 political commentator accuses liberals of always playing the victim. 5. Dewey by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter (Grand Central: 16 $19.99) The impact that a cat named Dewey Readmore Books had on an Iowa library and its patrons. 6. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 3 2008 by Paul Krugman (W.W. Norton: $24.95) A look to the past for the causes of the credit crisis. 7. Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz (Random 8 House: $40) The photographer dissects and explains the making of her favorite photos. 8. Goodnight Bush by Erich Origen and Gan Golan (Little, 24 Brown: $14.99) A parody of the children’s classic “Goodnight Moon.” 9. American Lightning by Howard Blum (Crown: $24.95) The 3 story of the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. 10. Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, 17 Straus & Giroux: $27.95) Solutions to overpopulation and the global-warming crisis. *--*

1. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates ($14.95)

2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99)

3. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99)

4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga ($14)

5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz ($14)

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Nonfiction

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

2. Marley & Me by John Grogan ($13.95)

3. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama ($14.95)

4. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama ($7.99)

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

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.