BESTSELLERS

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.

*--* -- Fiction weeks on list 1. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf: $25) 3 Stories of American-born children and their Bengali parents straddling cultures. 2. Hollywood Crows by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, 3 Brown: $26.99) Two cops become ensnared in a femme fatale’s nasty divorce. 3. Lush Life by Richard Price (Farrar, Straus & 6 Giroux: $26) The layered lives of victims and perpetrators are explored in the aftermath of a Manhattan shooting. 4. Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon 1 & Schuster: $25.95) A law school grad seeks her missing brother, who may be linked to dark deeds. 5. Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine: 3 $27) A blood stain in a stolen luxury car sets Alex Delaware on the trail of a serial killer. 6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot 12 Diaz (Riverhead: $24.95) A sci-fi-loving nerd and his immigrant family are haunted by the past. 7. Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut 2 (Putnam: $24.95) A collection of the late author’s unpublished short fiction. 8. Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner (Atria: $26.95) 1 Cannie Shapiro juggles her complicated life as her daughter is about to be bat mitzvahed. 9. The Appeal by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) A 11 billionaire tries to reverse a $41-million jury verdict over toxic-waste dumping. 10. Winter Study by Nevada Barr (Putnam: $24.95) Park 1 ranger Anna Pidgeon finds herself being stalked as she studies a wolf pack at Lake Superior. *--*

*--* -- Nonfiction Weeks on list 1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey 1 Zaslow (Hyperion: $21.95) The professor, who has terminal cancer, urges us to seize life’s moments. 2. Home by Julie Andrews (Hyperion: $26.95) The star 2 of stage and screen tells of life before “Mary Poppins.” 3. Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (Houghton Mifflin: 7 $24) A father’s struggle with his son’s meth addiction. 4. Bonk by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton: $24.95) What 1 science tells us about sex. 5. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (Beyond Words: $23.95) 1 Life’s secrets distilled from oral tradition, literature, religion and philosophy. 6. Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller (Atria: $27.95) 1 Tracking a generation of women through icons Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. 7. Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts (William 1 Morrow: $26.95) Portraits of the women who helped shape the young American nation. 8. Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon (McSweeney’s: 1 $24) The novelist defends his love of genre fiction, of comics, thrillers, horror and myth. 9. Why Good People Do Bad Things by Debbie Ford 1 (HarperOne: $24.95) How not to be your worst enemy. 10. The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll (Penguin: $35) How 2 the family of Osama bin Laden came to prominence and power in the Middle East. *--*

PAPERBACKS

Fiction

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

2. Peony in Love by Lisa See ($14)

3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

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

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

Nonfiction

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

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

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

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

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