PAPERBACKS

Fiction

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

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ($16)

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

4. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards ($14)

5. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ($15)

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Nonfiction

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

2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ($14)

3. Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin ($13.95)

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

5. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.