FictionPRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.)...

Fiction

PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.) A fictionalized account of the 1992 Democratic primaries by a political insider.(1)*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 8

ABSOLUTE POWER by David Baldacci. (Warner: $22.95.) Murder among the elite in the nation’s capital.(3*. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 5

THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.)A beautiful journalist escapes New York to find love on the range in Montana.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 26

MCNALLY’S PUZZLE by Lawrence Sanders. (Putnam: $24.95.) Exotic birds and eccentric characters mix in this tale of murder on Florida’s Gold Coast.(5)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 3

AND THIS TOO SHALL PASS by E. Lynn Harris. (Doubleday: $23.95.) Four lives intersect in this story of a football star wrongly accused of sexual harassment.(13)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

WHITE RABBIT by Kate Phillips. (Houghton Mifflin: $19.95.) A feisty octogenarian’s last day on earth.. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 5

THE MOOR’S LAST SIGH by Salman Rushdie. (Pantheon: $25.) The rise and fall of a Portuguese family in India through four generations.*. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 8

ATTICUS by Ron Hansen. (Harper Collins: $22.) A father goes to Mexico to retrieve the body of his prodigal son.*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 5

IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES by John Updike. (Knopf: $25.95.) The life choices of a 20th century American family as it wrestles with religious faith.(10). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 9

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace. (Little, Brown & Co.: $29.95.) Obsessed consumers populate this satire of the near future.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 6

Nonfiction

THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.) An energy-building plan focusing on burning body fat.(8). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 2

BLOOD SPORT: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House by James B. Stewart. (Simon & Schuster: $25.) Reviewed on page 3 of this week’s Book Review.. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(3)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 49

THE WAY OF THE WIZARD: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life by Deepak Chopra. (Crown/Harmony: $15.)(4)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 11

YOU’LL NEVER MAKE LOVE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany. (Dove Books: $22.95.) The used, and their users, in Tinsel Town.(11). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 8

RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT And Other Observations by Al Franken. (Delacorte: $21.95.) Wise-guy solutions to government complexities.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 9

HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! by Laura Schlessinger. (HarperCollins: $22.) (5)*. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 8

MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, PhD. (HarperCollins: $23.)(1)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 106

UNDAUNTED COURAGE: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster: $30.)(14). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 2

IT TAKES A VILLAGE: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster: $20.) Observations on the needs of children by the first lady.(6)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 10

Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. National rankings (parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly. For information on Times bestsellers, call (213) 237-4336 after 11 a.m. Wednesdays.

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson. (Vintage: $12.)*

2. MOO by Jane Smiley. (Ballantine: $12.)

3. GOOSEBUMPS #42: EGG MONSTER FROM MARS by R.L. Stine. (Scholastic: $3.99.)

4. SOPHIE’S WORLD: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder. (Berkley: $6.99.)

5. THE GLASS LAKE by Maeve Binchy. (Dell: $7.50.)*

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. WE’RE RIGHT, THEY’RE WRONG: A Progressive Program by James Carville. (Random: $10.)

2. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 L.A./SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT GUIDE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

3. THERE’S TREASURE EVERYWHERE: A Calvin & Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson. (Andrews & McMeel: $12.95.)

4. THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron. (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam: $13.95.)*

5. ZAGAT SURVEY LOS ANGELES MARKETPLACE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

* denotes books available in audio.