PAPERBACKS

1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ($13.95)

2. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson ($14)

3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan ($13.95)

Fiction

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

5. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon ($15.95)

Nonfiction

1. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle ($14)

2. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama ($14.95)

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

4. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

($15)

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

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.