PAPERBACKS - WEB ONLY

Fiction

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

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ($15)

3. Simple Genius by David Baldacci ($9.99)

4. Peony in Love by Lisa See ($14)

5. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult ($15)

6. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris ($13.99)

7. The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho ($13.95)

8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

9. The Woods by Harlan Coben ($9.99)

10. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs ($14)

Nonfiction

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

2. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle ($14)

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

4. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle ($14)

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

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

7. Grayson by Lynne Cox ($13)

8. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan ($16)

9. 21: Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich ($15)

10. A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn et al. ($17)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.