Southern California Rankings:FICTION1. A MAN IN FULL...

Southern California Rankings:

FICTION

1. A MAN IN FULL by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $28.95) The story of a real estate tycoon’s crash and burn and the sleaze who warm themselves by the fire.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 5

2. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Alfred A. Knopf: $25) The life and loves of a fisherman’s daughter who becomes a teahouse entertainer in Kyoto before and during WWII.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 55

3. THE SIMPLE TRUTH by David Baldacci (Warner: $25) Twenty-five years ago, Rufus Harms was convicted of a murder he knows he committed. Suddenly, he’s not guilty, or is he?

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3

4. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins: $27.50) An evangelical Baptist missionary takes his wife and children to the Belgian Congo in 1959.

Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 9

5. WHEN THE WIND BLOWS by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $25) An astonishing discovery in the woods brings together a recently widowed veterinarian and a troubled FBI agent.

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 5

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

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 13

7. BAG OF BONES by Stephen King (Scribner: $27.50) A best-selling writer is haunted by writer’s block and ghosts at his Maine summer home.

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 8

8. THE VAMPIRE ARMAND by Anne Rice (Alfred A. Knopf: $26.95) Is Lestat dead? As vampires from around the globe gather near his body, Armand tells his own story.

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 8

9. THE WOODY by Peter Lefcourt (Simon and Schuster: $23) Vermont’s junior senator, up for reelection, discovers he has an untimely case of E.D. (erectile dysfunction).

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

10. MIRROR IMAGE by Danielle Steel (Delacorte: $26.95) Beautiful, young, wealthy twins share adventures--and a husband--in the early part of the century.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 2

11. ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon and Schuster: $17) A Christmas suspense story, complete with abandoned baby and jewel thief.

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 7

12. THE LOCKET by Richard Paul Evans (Simon and Schuster: $15.95) A young man learns a valuable lesson from a dying patient at a nursing home.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

13. THE LOOP by Nicholas Evans (Delacorte: $25.95) A pack of wolves is unleashed on a town called Hope (Montana), reawakening an age-old tug of war among its citizens.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 5

14. SPLIT IMAGE by Judy Mercer (Pocket Books: $23) TV producer Ariel Gold returns; still fighting amnesia, she must investigate a story and a man she cannot remember.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

15. LINK by Walt Becker (William Morrow: $25) Paleoanthropologists find a connection between ancient artifacts and space visitors that threatens to destroy the world.

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 3

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NONFICTION

1. THE CENTURY by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Doubleday: $60) The story of our last 100 years; a companion to an upcoming ABC special.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

2. CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK THREE by Neale Donald Walsch (Hampton Roads: $22.95) Further dispatches on life and death dictated by the Man Upstairs.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 5

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

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 49

4. THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN by Simon Winchester (HarperCollins: $22) The editor of the Oxford English Dictionary was helped by a brilliant mental patient.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 12

5. 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: 9; Weeks on List: 32

6. THE GREATEST GENERATION by Tom Brokaw (Random House: $24.95) TV anchor tells the stories of the generation that came of age during the Depression and World War II.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

7. BLIND MAN’S BLUFF by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (PublicAffairs: $2 5) Revelations about the secret world of American submarine espionage.

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 2

8. TO BEGIN AGAIN by Naomi Levy (Alfred A. Knopf: $23) A book of comfort and faith that takes on the questions that come up after personal tragedy.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 5

9. LINDBERGH by A. Scott Berg (Putnam: $30) Courageous aviator, loving father, isolationist and, finally, fallen hero: a dramatic American story.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 12

10. ECOLOGY OF FEAR by Mike Davis (Metropolitan Books: $25) Los Angeles’ precarious environmental history and some apocalyptic warnings about its future.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 13

11. MOVIES AND MONEY by David Puttnam and Neil Wattson (Alfred A. Knopf: $27.50) The transformation of film from a technological curiosity into an economic and cultural force.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

12. WORK IN PROGRESS by Michael Eisner with Tony Schwartz (Random House: $27.50) The corporate rise and rise of Disney’s No. 1 mouseketeer.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 7

13. KING OF THE WORLD by David Remnick (Random House: $25) From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali: the story of the world’s greatest prizefighter.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 4

14. THE AMERICAN CENTURY by Harold Evans (Alfred A. Knopf: $60) A sweeping illustrated account of the rise of the United States to political and cultural dominance.

Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 2

15. THE LAST MOGUL by Dennis McDougal (Crown: $27.50) A profile of Lew Wasserman, whose career spans the history of Hollywood, from the silent era to present-day.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

Paperbacks

FICTION

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

2. THE WINNER by David Baldacci (WarnerVision: $7.99) A man, a woman and a crooked lottery scheme.

3. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST by Jonathan Kellerman (Bantam: $7.50) A killer murders in the name of science.

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

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

6. COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier (Vintage: $13) A Confederate soldier quits the Civil War.

7. NUMBERED ACCOUNT by Christopher Reich (Dell: $7.99) A young man risks everything to hunt his father’s killer.

8. MIDWIVES by Chris Bohjalian (Vintage: $13) The moral dilemmas of a New England midwife.

9. THE GHOST by Danielle Steel (Dell: $7.50) A modern man finds solace in the diary of an 18th century woman.

10. THE EYES OF THE DRAGON by Stephen King (New American Library: $7.99) A kingdom in turmoil.

****

NONFICTION

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

2. WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY? (Bridge Publications: $24.95) A guide to L. Ron Hubbard’s religious philosophy.

3. THE SEAT OF THE SOUL by Gary Zukav (Fireside: $12) Insights into creating the spirituality of daily life.

4. THE VIRTUES OF AGING by Jimmy Carter (Ballantine: $9.95) Reasons why “the golden years” should be so golden.

5. THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger (HarperPaperback: $13) Fishermen trapped in a storm.

6. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (Pocket Books: $14) A (TV) watcher’s guide.

7. THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko (Pocket: $14) Secrets of the wealthy.

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

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

10. A CIVIL ACTION by Jonathan Harr (Vintage: $13) David vs. an industrial Goliath in a Massachusetts town.

Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.