Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Dec.13, 2009

Fiction

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

2. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee ($15)

3. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ($14)

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

5. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99)

6. Push by Sapphire ($13)

7. The Private Patient by P. D. James ($15)

8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ($14)

9. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99)

10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95)

Nonfiction

1. The Blind Side by Michael Lewis ($13.95)

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

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

4. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner ($15.99)

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

6. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ($15)

7. Our Choice by Al Gore ($26.99)

8. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ($15.99)

9. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell ($14.99)

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

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.