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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Fiction LAST WEEK WEEKS ON LIST 1 Cell by Stephen King 1 3 (Scribner: $26.95) Low-tech people fight for survival against zombies who’ve been stripped of all but the most destructive urges by a pulse sent from their cellular phones.

2 Memory in Death by J.D. 4 2 Robb (Putnam: $24.95) The wounds of her childhood reopened, Lt. Eve Dallas tries to find out who would want to kill a woman from her past who was blackmailing her.

3 The Last Templar by 12 2 Raymond Khoury (Dutton: $24.95) Four horsemen dressed as Knights of Templar crash a Vatican artifacts exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and steal a code cracker.

4 The Good Life by Jay -- 1 McInerney (Knopf: $25) Two wealthy New York couples reexamine their lives, relationships and values in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

5 Snow Flower and the Secret 6 27 Fan by Lisa See (Random House: $21.95) Two women in the cloistered society of 19th century China forge a close friendship that is threatened by misunderstanding.

6 The Da Vinci Code by Dan 3 143 Brown (Doubleday: $24.95) A Louvre curator’s killing leads to clues hidden in Leonardo’s paintings and a secret society with something to hide.

7 The Hunt Club by John 7 2 Lescroart (Dutton: $26.95) Fired from his job, a child protective services worker is asked by a San Francisco homicide detective to help investigate a federal judge’s murder.

8 Attention. Deficit. -- 1 Disorder. by Brad Listi (Simon Spotlight Entertainment: $21) A washed-out day trader turned pizza delivery boy embarks on a cross-country quest for meaning.

9 The Sea by John Banville -- 9 (Knopf: $23) A widower struggles to rid himself of the yoke of memory by visiting the coastal town where he spent time as a boy.

10 Murder in Montmartre by -- 1 Cara Black (Soho Crime: $23) Computer security gal Aimee Leduc tangles with Corsican separatists in a seedy Paris district while trying to clear a friend of murder.

11 Christ the Lord by Anne -- 12 Rice (Knopf: $25.95) A 7-year-old Jesus returns to Nazareth after the death of King Herod and gradually discovers his power to heal and raise the dead.

12 The History of Love by -- 11 Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton: $23.95) A writer escapes the Nazis but loses his beloved and the will to create. A teenager named for one of his characters helps her bereaved mother.

13 S Is for Silence by Sue 8 10 Grafton (Putnam: $26.95) Kinsey Millhone is hired to find out what happened to a woman who disappeared 34 years earlier from a Central California agricultural town.

14 Star Wars: Outbound Flight -- 1 by Timothy Zahn (Del Rey: $26.95) On a mission to contact intelligent life in distant galaxies, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin battle an alien mastermind and Darth Sidious.

15 Arthur and George by 5 4 Julian Barnes (Knopf: $24.95) Arthur Conan Doyle tries to clear an obscure country lawyer convicted in a racially tinged case of mutilating cattle and writing obscene letters.

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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Nonfiction LAST WEEK WEEKS ON LIST 1 Marley & Me by John Grogan 2 12 (William Morrow: $21.95) A columnist recalls how Marley, an incorrigible Labrador retriever, flunked obedience school, terrorized a pet sitter and won over his family.

2 The Year of Magical 1 19 Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf: $23.95) The author explores the nature of grief and survival in the months after her writer-husband’s sudden death.

3 The World Is Flat by 3 43 Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27.50) How technology and the forces of globalization are connecting -- and changing -- the world.

4 Freakonomics by Steven D. 4 37 Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow: $25.95) An economist deconstructs statistics and uses numbers to help explain human behavior.

5 You’re Wearing That? by -- 1 Deborah Tannen (Random House: $24.95) A linguist studies the conversations between mothers and daughters, the direct and indirect messages, intended or not.

6 Natural Cures “They” Don’t -- 23 Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau (Alliance Publishing: $29.95) The infomercial mogul touts alternative therapies and supplements.

7 Bad Childhood, Good Life 6 5 by Laura Schlessinger (HarperCollins: $24.95) How to move past an unhappy childhood, change negative behaviors and thrive.

8 Team of Rivals by Doris -- 14 Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster: $35) How country lawyer and one-term congressman Abraham Lincoln used his savvy to bring political rivals into his Cabinet.

9 The Black Dahlia Files by -- 3 Donald H. Wolfe (ReganBooks: $26.95) An investigation of the infamous unsolved case of the murder of a woman dubbed the Black Dahlia leads to surprising suspects.

10 My Friend Leonard by James 7 17 Frey (Penguin: $24.95) The former cocaine addict’s sequel to “A Million Little Pieces” celebrates the mobster who helped him turn his life around.

11 Wilshire Boulevard by 9 3 Kevin Roderick with J. Eric Lynxwiler (Angel City Press: $40) An illustrated history of the storied thoroughfare that runs from downtown Los Angeles to the ocean.

12 Jim Cramer’s Real Money: -- 1 Sane Investing in an Insane World by James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster: $26) The TV host and co-founder of TheStreet.com explains the basics.

13 My Year in Iraq by L. Paul -- 1 Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell (Simon & Schuster: $27) America’s proconsul in Iraq details the collapse of Iraqi society after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

14 Self-Made Man by Norah 11 2 Vincent (Viking: $24.95) The female columnist spends 18 months disguised as a man to discover how men behave and interact with each other and with women.

15 American Vertigo by 8 2 Bernard-Henri Levy (Random House: $24.95) Snapshots of American poverty and affluence by a French author tracing 18th century writer Alexis de Tocqueville’s footsteps.

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