BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Fiction 1 The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Warner: $7.99) An attorney for a rich woman’s son fears for his own safety.

2 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Broadway: $13.95) A college grad enters fashion publishing.

3 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin: $14) A father hides the birth of a twin from his wife.

4 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead: $14) A writer returns to Kabul to rescue the son of a childhood friend.

5 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House: $13.95) Two women in 19th century China.

6 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperSanFrancisco: $13) An Andalusian shepherd boy searches for treasure in Egypt.

7 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton: $13.95) A writer escapes the Nazis but loses his beloved.

8 March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin: $14) Imagining the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, father of the “Little Women.”

9 Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett (Vintage: $12.95) A Royal Thai police inspector seeks a CIA agent’s killer.

10 Chill Factor by Sandra Brown (Pocket: $9.99) A woman is stranded in a cabin with an injured man who may be a serial killer.

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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Nonfiction 1 An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (Rodale: $21.95) The former vice president cites the evidence for global warming.

2 1776 by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster: $18) How Colonial forces took on the world’s greatest military power.

3 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Vintage: $14.95) A serial killer haunts the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

4 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner: $14) A memoir of breaking away from dysfunctional parents.

5 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (Plume: $15) How the U.S. pressures poor countries.

6 Night by Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang: $9) A teenager’s harrowing year spent in four concentration camps.

7 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen: $12.95) A code of conduct based on Toltec wisdom.

8 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (Vintage: $14.95) A memoir of being orphaned.

9 Regards by John Gregory Dunne (Thunder’s Mouth Press: $16.95) Selected nonfiction works by the late writer.

10 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library: $14) How to attain enlightenment by living in the now.

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.