Los Angeles Times bestsellers (paperback) for March 21, 2010.

Fiction

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95)

2. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

($14.95)

3. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See ($15)

4. Little Bee by Chris Cleave ($14)

5. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann ($15)

6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ($13.99)

7. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan ($7.99)

8. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ($14)

9. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan ($7.99)

10. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

($7.99)

Nonfiction

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

2. The Lost City of Z by David Grann ($15.95)

3. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn ($18.95)

4. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer ($14.95)

5. Animals Make us Human by Temple Grandin ($15.95)

6. The Official SAT Study Guide, 2nd Edition by the College Board ($21.99)

7. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

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

9. The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee

($7.75)

10. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell ($14.99)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.