PAPERBACKS

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

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

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

Fiction

4. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky ($14.95)

5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

-- Nonfiction

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

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

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

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

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

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.