BESTSELLERS

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.

*--* Fiction weeks on list 1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: 18 $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 2. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly 5 (Little, Brown: $26.99) A luckless attorney defends a studio executive accused of offing his wife and her lover. 3. The Gate House by Nelson DeMille (Grand 3 Central: $27.99) A man and his ex-wife attempt to reconcile years after her affair with a mob boss. 4. Divine Justice by David Baldacci (Grand 1 Central: $27.99) A government assassin is hunted down after avenging his wife’s death. 5. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, 15 Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality. 6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie 15 Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation. 7. Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn (Atria: 3 $27.95) CIA operative Mitch Rapp attempts to foil a terrorist plot on American soil while in Afghanistan. 8. A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre (Scribner: 5 $28) Turkish Muslims in Germany take in a homeless man who turns out to be a terrorist. 9. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David 18 Wroblewski (Ecco: $25.95) A mute dog breeder is banished by his uncle a la “Hamlet.” 10. Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam: 1 $25.95) Lt. Eve Dallas hunts a killer poisoning religious figures. *--*

*--* Nonfiction weeks on list 1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with 30 Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion: $21.95) A professor’s terminal cancer inspires a call to seize life’s moments. 2. Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. 10 Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27.95) This provocative book offers solutions to overpopulation and the global-warming crisis. 3. Dewey by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter 7 (Grand Central: $19.99) The impact that a cat named Dewey, who had been left in the after-hours book-return slot, had on an Iowa library and its patrons. 4. The Snowball by Alice Schroeder (Bantam: 6 $35) The life and times of investor Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha. 5. Goodnight Bush by Erich Origen and Gan 17 Golan (Little, Brown: $14.99) A parody of the children’s classic “Goodnight Moon” takes jabs at the Bush administration. 6. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David 22 Sedaris (Little, Brown: $25.99) Musings on life and smoking. 7. I Live Here by Mia Kirshner et al. 1 (Pantheon: $29.95) Stories of refugees living in world crisis areas. 8. Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou 2 (Metropolitan: $25) Stories and wisdom dedicated to the daughter the poet never had. 9. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell 4 (Riverhead: $25.95) A profile of the Puritans who fought an early battle between church and state. 10. Influence by Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley 1 Olsen (Razorbill: $35) The “Full House” twins’ account of their lives as actresses, designers and entrepreneurs. *--*