FictionANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN: A Novel...

Fiction

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

COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly: $24) A Confederate soldier quits the Civil War and heads home. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 22

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: 3; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3

VIOLIN by Anne Rice (Knopf: $25.95) A phantom violinist torments a grief-stricken widow. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 6

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Knopf: $25) The life and love of a teahouse entertainer. Reviewed by Heller McAlpin, Page 8. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

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: 6; Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 11

ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED by Walter Mosley (Norton: $23) An ex-con named Socrates straightens out his life amidst the poverty and crime of present-day Watts. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 3

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (Random House: $23) The rise and fall of a South Indian family. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 21

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

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST by Jonathan Kellerman (Bantam: $24.95) Alex Delaware discovers a mysterious link between a girl’s murder and a policeman’s mysterious suicide. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

Nonfiction

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet Irish childhood. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 57

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK ONE by Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam: $19.95) Channeling Mr. Big. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 31

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: 3; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 33

INTO THIN AIR: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Villard: $24) Tragedy on a mountaintop. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 31

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: 5; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 2

THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES by Monty Roberts with Lucy Grealy (Random House: $23) Turning wild horses into pussycats. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 13

MAKING FACES by Kevyn Aucoin (Little, Brown: $29.95) Transforming today’s stars into yesterday’s starlets. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 3

DOGS NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Crown: $24) Tales of the interior life of man’s best friend. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 3

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: 9; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 21

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

Paperbacks: FICTION

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

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

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

4. THE FALLEN MAN by Tony Hillerman (HarperPaperbacks: $6.99)

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

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

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

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

3. HELLO, HE LIED: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches by Lynda Obst (Broadway Books: $13)

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

5. THE ART BOOK (Phaidon Press: $9.95)

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