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: 10

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ENEMY by Elizabeth George. (Bantam: $23.95.) A journalist and a politico face the kidnappers of their love child.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 2

THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.) (3)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 28

SPRING COLLECTION by Judith Krantz. (Crown: $24.) Swiss billionaire tries to reconcile with daughter during a Parisian fashion competition.(15)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 2

ABSOLUTE POWER by David Baldacci. (Warner: $22.95.) Murder among the elite in the nation’s capital.(4). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 6

IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES by John Updike. (Knopf: $25.95.) (14). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 11

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace. (Little, Brown & Co.: $29.95.) Obsessed consumers populate this satire of the near future.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 8

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.(5). Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 2

THE POET by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown and Company: $22.95.) A crime reporter tracks a murderer who has outwitted law enforcement’s best investigators.*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 9

A PLACE TO FALL by Roger Director. (Villard: $22.) Egotism and superficiality mark the rise of a no-name to television stardom.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

Nonfiction

IN CONTEMPT by Christopher Darden with Jess Walter. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $26.) A life well-acquainted with racism and civil rights. . .and then came the Simpson trial.(1). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 2

THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.) An energy-building plan focusing on burning body fat.(11). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 4

BLOOD SPORT: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House by James B. Stewart. (Simon & Schuster: $25.)Bad private business decisions and bad public explanations.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 3

YOU’LL NEVER MAKE LOVE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany as told to Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel and Joanne Parrent. (Dove Books: $22.95.) The used, and their users, in Tinsel Town.(15). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 10

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(5)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 51

RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT And Other Observations by Al Franken. (Delacorte: $21.95.) Wise-guy satire aimed at government red tape.(4)*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 10

UNDAUNTED COURAGE: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster: $30.)(7). Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 4

MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, PhD. (HarperCollins: $23.)(3)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 108

THE WAY OF THE WIZARD: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life by Deepak Chopra. (Crown/Harmony: $15.)(6)*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 13

HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! by Laura Schlessinger. (HarperCollins: $22.) Pleasure-seeking and its consequences.(8)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 12

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. THE GREEN MILE PART ONE: THE TWO DEAD GIRLS by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)

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

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

4. MOO by Jane Smiley. (Ballantine: $12.)*

5. LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler. (Fawcett: $12.)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 LOS ANGELES/SO. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANTS edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

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

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

4. CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL edited by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)*

5. DEAD MAN WALKING by Helen Prejean. (Vintage: $12.)*

* denotes books available in audio.