Southern California Rankings:FICTION1. RAINBOW SIX by Tom...

Southern California Rankings:

FICTION

1. RAINBOW SIX by Tom Clancy (Putnam: $27.95) Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark heads an international special-ops anti-terrorist strike force.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2

2. BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY by Helen Fielding (Viking: $22.95) The New Year’s resolutions of a single thirtysomething girlie Brit, from personal appearance to the perfect man.

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 12

3. COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly: $24) A Confederate soldier deserts the Civil War and walks home to his farm and sweetheart.

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 55

4. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Knopf: $25) The life and loves of a teahouse entertainer growing up in Kyoto during World War II.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 42

5. THE FIRST EAGLE by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins: $25) A mystery involving murder, Navajo witchcraft and the bubonic plague in the American Southwest.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3

6. POINT OF ORIGIN by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam: $25.95) Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, takes on a psychopathic serial killer.

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 7

7. I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE by Wally Lamb (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $27.50) A man with a twin brother searches for meaning in the story of an Italian ancestor.

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 11

8. MOON MUSIC by Faye Kellerman (Morrow: $25.50) Det. Sgt. Romulus Poe investigates the death of a Las Vegas showgirl and finds similarities to another killing.

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 3

9. SUMMER SISTERS by Judy Blume (Delacorte: $21.95) Friendship between two unlikely girls blossoms and grows through years of hardship and maturity.

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 15

10. THE READER by Bernhard Schlink (Pantheon: $21) The story of a boyhood interlude with a woman, a sexual awakening and its aftermath.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

11. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE by Nicholas Sparks (Warner: $20) A single mother searches for a lonely heart who threw a lover’s plea into the ocean.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 14

12. A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR by John Irving (Random House: $27.95) From childhood to middle age, a woman learns that one must wait a long time to fall in love.

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 17

13. HERE THE SEA USED TO BE by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin: $25) The story of an oil-hungry magnate and his contentious daughter.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

14. THE ARCHIVIST by Martha Cooley (Little, Brown: $22.95) A librarian’s solitary existence is challenged by a vivacious young poet.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 3

15. THE FALL OF A SPARROW by Robert Hellenga (Scribner: $25) After the murder of his daughter, a classics professor seeks meaning, sex, love and work in Italy.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

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NONFICTION

1. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom (Doubleday: $19.95) A sportswriter’s empowering story of his weekly visits to see an older dying friend.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 34

2. ECOLOGY OF FEAR by Mike Davis (Metropolitan Books: $25) Los Angeles’ precarious relationship with the environment and an apocalyptic warning about its future.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3

3. THE DAY DIANA DIED by Christopher Andersen (Morrow: $27) More revelations about events leading up to Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash a year ago.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2

4. EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS by Peter Biskind (Simon and Schuster: $25) How the sex-drugs-and-rock ‘n’ roll generation of filmmakers saved Hollywood.

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 20

5. THE NINE STEPS TO FI by Suze Orman (Crown: $23) Practical tips for avoiding stress, making good savings plans and managing money.

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 20

6. THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS by Thomas Cahill (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $23.50) How a nomadic people heard the Almighty’s voice and transformed the world.

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 20

7. A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY by Jimmy Buffett (Random House: $24.95) The songwriter author reflects on his adventures around the globe aboard his seaplane.

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 10

8. A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Jewel (HarperCollins: $15) A poetry collection drawn from the pop singer’s life and experiences.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 8

9. THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR by Thomas Stanley and William Danko (Longstreet Press: $22) Lives of the rich and famous, including golden parachutes.

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 30

10. ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet lyrical memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in a rain-soaked Irish city.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 93

11. A MONK SWIMMING by Malachy McCourt (Hyperion: $23.95) The brother of Frank McCourt offers a bawdy antidote to a sad childhood.

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 10

12. EVERYBODY WAS SO YOUNG by Amanda Vaill (Houghton Mifflin: $30) The story of Gerald and Sara Murphy and the other members of the Lost Generation.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

13. VERTIGO by Dan Auiler (St. Martin’s: $27.95) An account of the trials and tribulations of making Hitchcock’s classic horror tale.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

14. CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK ONE by Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam: $19.95) Channeling messages from Mr. Big about good, evil and the meaning of life.

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 65

15. IF YOU’RE NOT OUT SELLING, YOU’RE BEING OUTSOLD by Michael St. Lawrence and Steven Johnson (Wiley: $22) Getting in touch with your inner salesman.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 7

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FICTION

1. DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD by Rebecca Wells (HarperCollins: $13) Sisterhood in the South.

2. THE BEST LAID PLANS by Sidney Sheldon (Warner: $7.99) A political dreamer meets a sexy schemer.

3. THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision: $5.99) Old flames recall their former combustion.

4. HIGH FIDELITY by Nick Hornby (Riverhead: $12.95) A 35-year-old man squelches heartbreak with pop music.

5. LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE by Rebecca Wells (HarperPerennial: $13) A “Ya-Ya Sisterhood” prequel.

6. HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK by Terry McMillan (Signet: $7.99) The key to a new life: a much younger man.

7. TIMEQUAKE by Kurt Vonnegut (Berkley: $13) In 2001, the universe must relive the 1990s.

8. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (HarperPerennial: $13) The rise and fall of an Indian family.

9. IF YOU LIVED HERE, YOU’D BE HOME BY by Sandra Tsing Loh (Riverhead: $13) The story of a pair of Hollywood wannabes.

10. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage: $13) A loner’s lyrical obsession with a young girl.

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NONFICTION

1. INTO THIN AIR by Jon Krakauer (Anchor Books: $7.99) Risk and recklessness on Mt. Everest.

2. UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN by Frances Mayes (Broadway: $13) Making a home in a glorious Italian landscape.

3. D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose (Touchstone: $16) The invasion that turned the tables in World War II.

4. CITY OF QUARTZ by Mike Davis (Vintage: $15) How L.A.’s history and power structures will shape the city’s future.

5. LEONARD MALTIN’S 1998 MOVIE & VIDEO GUIDE by Leonard Maltin (Signet: $7.99) A handbook to the movies.

6. WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS by Michael Shermer (W. H. Freeman: $14.95) Debunking the myths of our time.

7. PERMANENT MIDNIGHT by Jerry Stahl (Warner: $6.99) A Hollywood writer recounts the road back from heroin addiction.

8. THIS BOY’S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (HarperPerennial: $13) A memoir of growing up in the 1950s.

9. A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Howard Zinn (New Press: $13) From sea to shining sea.

10. HELLO, HE LIED by Lynda Obst (Broadway: $13) Cutting deals and dodging egos in Tinsel Town.

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.