FICTION1) ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN: A...

FICTION

1) ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by Dominick Dunne (Crown: $25) A reporter lashes out at the vulgarity and spectacle of the O.J. Simpson murder trial.. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

2) CAT & MOUSE by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $24.95) Investigator Alex Cross joins forces with an English private eye to hunt down a pair of psychopaths.. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2

3) WOBEGON BOY by Garrison Keillor (Viking: $24.95) A hapless young man faces confusion and heartache when he leaves his cozy Minnesota hometown.. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

4) COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly: $24) A Confederate soldier quits the Civil War and heads home.. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 21

5) ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED by Walter Mosley (Norton: $23) An ex-con named Socrates straightens out his life amidst the poverty and crime of present-day Watts.. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2

6) THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES by Joy Nicholson (St. Martin’s: $20.95) A thoughtful young girl weathers her family’s unhappiness with a bit of wisdom and her surfboard.. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

7) THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (Random House: $23) The rise and fall of a South Indian family.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 20

8) VIOLIN by Anne Rice (Knopf: $25.95) A phantom violinist torments a grief-stricken widow.. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 5

9) LUCKY YOU by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf: $24) The battle for a winning lottery ticket pits a veterinarian against two lowlifes in a Florida town.. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 3

10) THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS by Caleb Carr (Random House: $25.95) The alienist Kreizler faces a serial killer in old New York.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 10

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NONFICTION

1) ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet Irish childhood.. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 56

2) INTO THIN AIR: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Villard: $24) Tragedy on a mountaintop.. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 30

3) THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT by Seymour M. Hersh (Little, Brown: $26.95) How John F. Kennedy’s private life and personal obsessions affected the affairs of the nation.. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

4) MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL by John Berendt. (Random House: $24.) An assortment of outcasts and strange characters people this account of a sensational murder in an old Southern town.. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 32

5) CITIZEN SOLDIERS: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster: $27.50) The guts and glory of America’s front-line fighters.. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 2

6) MAKING FACES by Kevyn Aucoin (Little, Brown: $29.95) Transforming today’s stars into yesterday’s starlets.. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2

7) DIANA: Her True Story, In Her Own Words by Andrew Morton (Simon & Schuster: $22.95) A revised version of the 1992 biography with new material.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 5

8) THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger (Norton: $23.95) An account of fishermen trapped in the fury of a storm at sea.. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 20

9) CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK ONE by Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam: $19.95) Channeling Mr. Big.. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 30

10) WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster: $25) A childhood memoir of baseball, family and American society in 1950s New York.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 3

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Paperbacks

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. THE DARK TOWER IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (Penguin: $17.95)

2. TOM CLANCY’S POWER PLAYS: Politika created by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg (Berkley: $7.50)

3. A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest Gaines (Vintage: $12)

4. ELLEN FOSTER by Kaye Gibbons (Vintage: $10)

5. AIRFRAME by Michael Crichton (Ballantine: $7.99)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. JEN-X: Jenny McCarthy’s Open Book by Jenny McCarthy with Neal Karlen (ReganBooks: $19.95)

2. MY DARK PLACES by James Ellroy (Vintage: $14)

3. THE COLOR OF WATER by James McBride. (Riverhead: $12.)

4. UNDAUNTED COURAGE by Stephen E. Ambrose (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: $16)

5. UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes (Broadway Books: $13)

Rankings are based on a Times’ poll of Southland bookstores.