Fiction3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY by Arthur C....

Fiction

3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY by Arthur C. Clarke. (Del Rey: $25). Astronaut Frank Poole is awakened 1,000 years later to witness a new civilization and the meaning of the mysterious monoliths (3). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 6

THE PARTNER by John Grisham. (Doubleday: $26.95) (1). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 7

SOLE SURVIVOR by Dean Koontz. (Knopf: $25.95) (13). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 10

LE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson. (Dutton: $23.95). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 12

TOTAL CONTROL by David Baldacci. (Warner: $24) (5). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 12

ASHWORTH HALL by Anne Perry. (Fawcett Columbine: $24). An important politican’s murder jeopardizes a meeting of Catholics and Protestants to discuss Irish home rule. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 2

ABBREVIATING ERNIE by Peter Lefcourt. (Villard: $24.) A small-town detective searches for clues, not to mention pieces, in the bizarre case of a dismembered husband. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 5

THE CELESTINE PROPHECY by James Redfield. (Warner: $17.95) (12). Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 84

AIRFRAME by Michael Crichton (Alfred A. Knopf: $26.) Our reviewer, Thomas Petzinger Jr., said this tale of the jetliner industry captures “the delicate interplay of the individual elements in a complex system . . . [and] the unstinting personal commitment of the people who design these planes.” Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 11

ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $24.95). Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 17

Nonfiction

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt. (Scribner: $24) (1). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 25

SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. (Warner: $17.95) (3). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 35

8 WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil. (Knopf: $23) (2). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 6

MONSTER: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne. (Random House: $21). Our reviewer, Michael Crichton, called Dunne’s book “a remarkable narrative . . . that tells more about the experience of writing for Hollywood than any other book ever written.” Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 9

THE KISS by Kathryn Harrison. (Random House: $20). A writer reveals her tormented affair with her father that began when she was 20. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 4

MASTERING THE ZONE: The Art of Achieving SuperHealth by Barry Sears. (ReganBooks: $24) (5). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 9

PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham. (Knopf: $29.95) (4). Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 11

NAKED by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown & Co.: $21.95). Spending Christmas with a paroled prostitute, working in a fruit-packing factory and other unusual moments in the life of the NPR commentator. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 5

BOGART by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax (Morrow: $27.50). Our reviewer, David Thomson, called the book “an immediate triumph. . . . So rich in its research, so compelling in its writing, it is an absorbing human story.” Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 2

TO DANCE WITH THE DEVIL: The New War on Breast Cancer by Karen Stabiner. (Delacorte: $25.95). Our reviewer, Betsy Carter, wrote that “. . . this book runs the gamut from terrifying to mollifying, including everything you need to know.” Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. THE LAST DON by Mario Puzo. (Ballantine: $7.99)

2. THE RUNAWAY JURY by John Grisham. (Bantam: $7.99)

3. THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje. (Vintage: $11)

4. FLOATERS by Joseph Wambaugh. (Bantam: $6.99)

5. THE BLUE FLOWER by Penelope Fitzgerald. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin: $12)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen R. Covey. (Fireside/Simon and Schuster: $12)

2. ZAGAT SURVEY 1997 LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT GUIDE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95)

3. THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD by Carl Sagan. (Ballantine: $14)

4. THE CLOISTER WALK by Kathleen Norris. (Riverhead: $12.50)

5. HITLER’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS by Daniel Jonah Goldenhagen. (Vintage: $16)

Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. National hardcover rankings (in parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly.