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: 1; Weeks on List: 19

UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo (Scribner: $27.50) Coming of age in the Cold War and beyond. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 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: 3; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

VIOLIN by Anne Rice (Knopf: $25.95) A phantom violinist torments a grief-stricken widow. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3

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: 5; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 8

DRIVING BLIND by Ray Bradbury (Avon: $23) A dead man in search of mourners, an ancient lover, a hooded stranger and others populate this collection of otherworldly tales. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

COMANCHE MOON by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster: $28.50) The extinction of the Comanche tribe figures in this prequel to “Lonesome Dove.”. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Knopf: $25) The life and loves of a teahouse entertainer. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 2

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (Random House: $23) The rise and fall of a South Indian family. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 18

FLOOD TIDE by Clive Cussler (Simon & Schuster: $26) Dirk Pitt faces a madman controlling a worldwide slave trade. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 7

Nonfiction

INTO THIN AIR: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Villard: $24) Tragedy on a mountaintop. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 28

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

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet Irish childhood. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 54

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

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK ONE by Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam: $19.95) Channeling Mr. Big. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 28

FULL CIRCLE: A Pacific Journey with Michael Palin by Michael Palin (St. Martin’s: $29.95) Travels along 20,000 miles of the Pacific rim. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES by Monty Roberts with Lucy Grealy (Random House: $23) Turning wild horses into pussycats. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 12

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: --; Weeks on List: 18

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: 9; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

BIG TROUBLE: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas (Simon & Schuster: $32.50) A governor’s murder and class warfare at the turn of the century. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 2

Paperbacks: FICTION

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

2. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by James Ellroy (Warner: $12.99)

3. THE CLINIC by Jonathan Kellerman (Bantam: $6.99)

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

5. ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood (Anchor: $12)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

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

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

3. SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET by Heinrich Harrer (Tarcher: $13.95)

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.