FictionCOLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly:...

Fiction

COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly: $24) A Confederate soldier quits the Civil War and heads home. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 24

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: 2; Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 4

THE WINNER by David Baldacci (Warner Books: $25) A woman’s part in a crooked lottery scheme comes to light during an FBI murder investigation. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

A CERTAIN JUSTICE by P.D. James (Alfred A. Knopf: $25) A brilliant attorney’s murder draws Adam Dalgliesh into the strange closed world of London’s legal community. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Knopf: $25) The life and loves of a teahouse entertainer. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 6

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (Random House: $23) The rise and fall of a South Indian family. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 23

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: 7; Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 5

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST by Jonathan Kellerman (Bantam: $24.95) Alex Delaware probes the link between a girl’s murder and a policeman’s mysterious suicide. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 3

THE GHOST by Danielle Steel (Delacorte: $25.95) A heartbroken man finds solace in an ancient chateau haunted by an 18th century English countess. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 2

UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo (Scribner: 27.50) Coming of age in the Cold War and beyond. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 11

Nonfiction

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: 1; Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 35

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: 2; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 4

TRUMAN CAPOTE: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, And Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton (Nan Talese/Doubleday: $35) Portraits of the artist by those who knew him. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet Irish childhood. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 59

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

INTO THIN AIR: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Villard: $24) Tragedy on a mountaintop. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 33

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: 7; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK ONE by Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam: $19.95) Channeling Mr. Big. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 32

THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES by Monty Roberts (Random House: $23) Turning wild horses into pussycats. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 15

PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD by Joost Elffers (Stewart, Tabori & Chang: $19.95) A photographer craftily personifies vegetables and other edibles. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 2

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. M IS FOR MALICE by Sue Grafton (Fawcett: $7.99)

2. PETALS ON THE RIVER by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (Avon: $12.50)

3. LE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson (William Abrahams/Plume: $12.95)

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

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

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. THE SIMPSONS: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family edited by Ray Richmond and Antonia Coffman, created by Matt Groening. (HarperPerennial: $15.95)

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

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

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

5. HELLO, HE LIED by Lynda Obst (Broadway Books: $13)

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