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

Southern California Rating:

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: 9

2. ANGELS FLIGHT by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $24) A lawyer who has charged the LAPD with racism and brutality is murdered at the foot of the funicular.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2

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: 7; Weeks on List: 7

4. 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: 4; Weeks on List: 59

5. BILLY STRAIGHT by Jonathan Kellerman (Random House: $25.95) A homicide detective races to find a young murder witness before the killer does.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

6. SEIZE THE NIGHT by Dean Koontz (Bantam: $26.95) A hideous genetic experiment claims the children and pets of the quiet community of Moonlight Bay.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

7. 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: 5; Weeks on List: 13

8. CHARMING BILLY by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: $21) An Irish family reflects on the troubled, drink-spattered life of a deceased relative.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 13

9. GLAMORAMA by Bret Easton Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf: $25) A young man sinks into the dark side of fame and human nature in fashionable New York, London and Paris.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

10. 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: 17

11. DREAMING SOUTHERN by Linda Bruckheimer (Dutton: $23.95) A mother and her children head west on Route 66 to join her husband and get in mishaps along the way.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

12. 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: 10; Weeks on List: 10

13. AMSTERDAM by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $21) A journalist, composer and politician ease feelings of emptiness by sabotaging each other’s careers.

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 4

14. 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: 9; Weeks on List: 11

15. 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: 14; Weeks on List: 9

****

NONFICTION

1. 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: 2; Weeks on List: 5

2. 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: 5; Weeks on List: 53

3. BLIND MAN’S BLUFF by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (PublicAffairs: $25) Revelations about the secret world of American submarine espionage.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

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: 11; Weeks on List: 16

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

Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 78

6. 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: --; Weeks on List: 34

7. 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: 10; Weeks on List: 9

8. 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: 1; Weeks on List: 5

9. PURE DRIVEL by Steve Martin (Hyperion: $21) A collection of humorous riffs and comical sketches on various topics, most written by the entertainer for the New Yorker.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 12

10. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by Laura C. Schlessinger and Stewart Vogel (Cliff Street/HarperCollins: $24) The relevance of ancient teachings in everyday life.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 5

11. IN THE GARDEN OF OUR DREAMS by Shirlee T. Haizlip and Harold C. Haizlip (Kodansha: $24) Memoirs of a marriage: the shocking tale of a perfectly happy couple.

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 5

12. ON SUNSET BOULEVARD by Ed Sikov (Hyperion: $35) How Billy Wilder’s films challenged American pretensions to virtue with the seamier side of life.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

13. 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: --; Weeks on List: 27

14. THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM by George Soros (PublicAffairs: $26) A financial titan comments on recent economic developments and offers a theory of booms and busts.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

15. ELEGY FOR IRIS by John Bayley (St. Martin’s: $22.95) A tribute to the author and philosopher Iris Murdoch, stricken with Alzheimer’s disease, by her husband.

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. WHERE THE HEART IS by Billie Letts (Warner: $12) A teen starts a new life, and gives birth, in a Wal-Mart.

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

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

5. ENDURING LOVE by Ian McEwan (Anchor: $12.95) A London journalist is stalked by an obsessive man.

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

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

8. THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho (HarperFlamingo: $13) Transforming life experiences into gold.

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

10. INNER HARBOR by Nora Roberts (Penguin: $7.50) The lives and loves of three brothers on Chesapeake Bay.

****

NONFICTION

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

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

3. LAST OF THE BEST by Jim Murray (Los Angeles Times: $15.95) Pearls of journalism from the late sportswriter.

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

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

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

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

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

9. HOLIDAYS ON ICE by David Sedaris (Little, Brown: $9) Essays about department store Santas and other oddities.

10. EIGER DREAMS by Jon Krakauer (Anchor: $12.95) Summits of the world and the heroes who assault them.