FictionUNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo (Scribner: $27.50) Coming...

Fiction

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

COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly: $24) A Confederate soldier quits the Civil War and heads home. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 14

FLOOD TIDE by Clive Cussler (Simon & Schuster: $26) Hero Dirk Pitt faces a madman with a worldwide slave trade. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2

10 LB. PENALTY by Dick Francis (Putnam: $24.95) A politician jockeys for position while his son leaps obstacles set by their enemies. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

TIME QUAKE by Kurt Vonnegut (Putnam: $23.95) In 2001, the universe suffers a bout of deja vu u forcing the world to relive the 1990s. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

THE BEST LAID PLANS by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow: $25) A political dreamer meets a sexy schemer. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 4

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: 6; Weeks on List: 14

BLOOD LAKE: And Other Stories by Jim Krusoe (Boaz: $18.50) Tales of madcap characters trapped behind the eight ball. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

NIGHT PASSAGE by Robert Parker (Putnam: $21.95) A former LAPD officer finds trouble as police chief of a New England town called Paradise. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

Nonfiction

THE ROYALS by Kitty Kelley (Warner: $27) Applying a wrecking ball to the House of Windsor. Reviewed by Christopher Hitchens, Page 4. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet Irish childhood. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 49

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK ONE by Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam: $19.95) Channeling Mr. Big. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 23

A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD: A Life in Hollywood by Stanley Kramer with Thomas M. Coffey (Harcourt Brace: $25) A candid look back by the director of “High Noon,” “The Caine Mutiny” and other films. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

INTO THIN AIR: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Villard: $24) Risk and recklessness on a mountaintop. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 23

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: 6; Weeks on List: 7

KILLER INSTINCT: How Two Young Producers Took On Hollywood and Made the Most Controversial Film of the Decade by Jane Hamsher (Broadway Books: $25) The story behind Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers.” Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 4

THE PERFECT STORM: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger (Norton: $23.95) An account of fishermen trapped in the awesome fury of a storm. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 15

THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko (Longstreet: $22) Lives of the rich and fearless. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 9

MARCUS by Marcus Allen with Carlton Stowers (St. Martin’s: $24.95) The triumphs and tabloid controversies of a football hero. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 3

Paperbacks: FICTION

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

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

3. A THOUSAND ACRES by Jane Smiley (Ivy Books: $7.50)

4. THE LAST THING HE WANTED by Joan Didion (Vintage: $12)

5. TO THE HILT by Dick Francis (Berkley: $6.99)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. DIANA: Her True Story by Andrew Morton (Pocket: $7.50)

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

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

4. DIANA: Her New Life by Andrew Morton (Pocket: $6.99)

5. STANLEY KUBRICK: A Biography by John Baxter (Carroll & Graf: $13.95)

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