Los Angeles Times bestsellers (paperback) for Feb. 21, 2010

Fiction

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95)

2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ($13.99)

3. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann ($15)

4. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks ($7.99)

5. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ($14)

6. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan ($7.99)

7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery ($15)

8. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan($7.99)

9. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

($15)

10. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan ($7.99)

Nonfiction

1. The Lost City of Z by David Grann ($15.95)

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

3. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn ($18.95)

4. Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin

($15.95)

5. My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme ($15)

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

7. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler ($15)

8. L.A. Bizarro by Anthony Lovett and Matt Maranian ($19.95)

9. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

10. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer ($14.95)

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.