Southern California Rankings:FICTION1. RAINBOW SIX by Tom...

Southern California Rankings:

FICTION

1. RAINBOW SIX by Tom Clancy (Putnam: $27.95) Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark heads an international special-ops anti-terrorist strike force.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2

2. THE FIRST EAGLE by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins: $25) A mystery involving murder, Navajo witchcraft and the bubonic plague in the American Southwest.

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 3

3. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Knopf: $25) The life and loves of a teahouse entertainer growing up in Kyoto during World War II.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 41

4. BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY by Helen Fielding (Viking: $22.95) The New Year’s resolutions of a single thirtysomething girlie Brit, from personal appearance to the perfect man.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 11

5. SUMMER SISTERS by Judy Blume (Delacorte: $21.95) Friendship between two unlikely girls blossoms and grows through years of hardship and maturity.

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 14

6. POINT OF ORIGIN by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam: $25.95) Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, takes on a psychopathic serial killer.

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 6

7. MOON MUSIC by Faye Kellerman (Morrow: $25.50) Det. Sgt. Romulus Poe investigates the death of a Las Vegas showgirl and finds similarities to another killing.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 2

8. I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE by Wally Lamb (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $27.50) A man with a twin brother searches for meaning in the story of an Italian ancestor.

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 10

9. A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR by John Irving (Random House: $27.95) From childhood to middle age, a woman learns that one must wait a long time to fall in love.

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 16

10. COAST ROAD by Barbara Delinsky (Simon and Schuster: $24) An architect with a promising career sets his life aside when his ex-wife has a traumatic car accident.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

11. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE by Nicholas Sparks (Warner: $20) A single mother searches for a lonely heart who threw a lover’s plea into the ocean.

Last Week: 14; Weeks on List: 13

12. THE STREET LAWYER by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) After being confronted on a city street, an arrogant lawyer becomes an advocate for the homeless.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 24

13. COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly: $24) A Confederate soldier deserts the Civil War and walks home to his farm and sweetheart.

Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 54

14. MISADVENTURES IN THE (213) by Dennis Hensley (Rob Weisbach Books/Morrow: $24) Struggling writers, publicists and media egotists hunt for fame in Hollywood.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 3

15. THE TATTOOED SOLDIER by Hector Tobar (Delphinium Books: $23) Showdown between two immigrants, set against a backdrop of poverty and violence in L.A.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

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NONFICTION

1. THE DAY DIANA DIED by Christopher Andersen (Morrow: $27) More revelations about events leading up to Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash a year ago.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

2. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom (Doubleday: $19.95) A sportswriter’s empowering story of his weekly visits to see an older dying friend.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 33

3. ECOLOGY OF FEAR by Mike Davis (Metropolitan Books: $25) Los Angeles’ precarious relationship with the environment and an apocalyptic warning about its future.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2

4. THE NINE STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM by Suze Orman (Crown: $23) Practical tips for avoiding stress, making good savings plans and managing money.

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 19

5. A MONK SWIMMING by Malachy McCourt (Hyperion: $23.95) The brother of Frank McCourt offers a bawdy antidote to a sad childhood.

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 10

6. EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS by Peter Biskind (Simon and Schuster: $25) How the sex-drugs-and-rock ‘n’ roll generation of filmmakers saved Hollywood.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 19

7. THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS by Thomas Cahill (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $23.50) How a nomadic people heard the Almighty’s voice and transformed the world.

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 19

8. A PIRATE LOOKS AT FIFTY by Jimmy Buffett (Random House: $24.95) The songwriter author reflects on his adventures around the globe aboard his seaplane.

Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 9

9. THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Lanko (Longstreet Press: $22) Lives of the rich and famous, including golden parachutes.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 29

10. CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK ONE by Neale Donald Walsch (Putnam: $19.95) Channeling messages from Mr. Big about good, evil and the meaning of life.

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 64

11. A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Jewel (HarperCollins: $15) A poetry collection drawn from the pop singer’s life and experiences.

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 7

12. ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet lyrical memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in a rain-soaked Irish city.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 92

13. A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson (Broadway: $25) After 20 years in England, a writer gets reacquainted with America by hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 5

14. EXPLAINING HITLER by Ron Rosenbaum (Random House: $30) The continuing efforts among historians to account for the German dictator’s evil designs.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

15. BASQUIAT by Phoebe Hoban (Viking: $29.95) The short, wild, colorful life of the Jimi Hendrix of the art world.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 3

PAPERBACK

1. DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD by Rebecca Wells (HarperCollins: $13) Sisterhood in the South.

2. THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks (Warner Vision: $5.99) Old flames recall their former combustion.

3. THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (HarperPerennial: $13) The rise and fall of an Indian family.

4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage: $13) A loner’s lyrical obsession with a young girl.

5. HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK by Terry McMillan (Signet: $6.99) The key to a new life: a much younger man.

6. LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE by Rebecca Wells (HarperCollins: $13) A “Ya-Ya Sisterhood” prequel.

7. UNNATURAL EXPOSURE by Patricia Cornwell (Berkley: $7.99) Kay Scarpetta hunts for a killer who leaves clues in cyberspace.

8. SHE’S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb (Pocket: $14) A woman’s painful journey of self-discovery.

9. DETECTIVE by Arthur Hailey (Berkley: $7.99) The noirish world of a Miami investigator.

10. THE GRILLING SEASON by Diane Mott Davidson (Bantam: $6.50) A culinary whodunit from the Julia Child of mystery writers.

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NONFICTION

1. UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN by Frances Mayes (Broadway: $13) Making a home in a glorious Italian landscape.

2. INTO THIN AIR by Jon Krakauer (Anchor Books: $7.99) Risk and recklessness on Mt. Everest.

3. CITY OF QUARTZ by Mike Davis (Vintage: $15) How L.A.’s history and power structures will shape the city’s future.

4. NAKED by David Sedaris (Little, Brown: $12.95) Autobiographical essays from the NPR commentator.

5. THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger (HarperPerennial: $13) Fishermen trapped in the fury of an Atlantic storm.

6. BRAIN DROPPINGS by George Carlin (Hyperion: $9.95) The comedian’s look at the humorous absurdity of modern life.

7. HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION by Thomas Cahill (Anchor Books: $12) What Irish monks did after the fall of Rome.

8. UNDAUNTED COURAGE by Stephen E. Ambrose (Touchstone: $16) In the American wilderness with Lewis and Clark.

9. NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Penguin: $12.95) A Colombian drug cartel’s abduction of a journalist.

10. THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD by Carl Sagan (Ballantine: $14) Science vs. the irrational in the modern world.

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.