FictionANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN: A Novel...

Fiction

ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by Dominick Dunne (Crown: $25) A reporter lashes out at the vulgarity and spectacle of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Southern California ranking: 1; 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: 2; Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 23

A CERTAIN JUSTICE by P.D. James (Alfred A. Knopf: $25) A brilliant attorney’s murder draws Adam Dalgliesh into the strange closed world of London’s legal community. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy (Random House: $23) The rise and fall of a South Indian family. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 22

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST by Jonathan Kellerman (Bantam: $24.95) Alex Delaware probes the link between a girl’s murder and a policeman’s mysterious suicide. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 2

CAT & MOUSE by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $24.95) Investigator Alex Cross joins forces with an English private eye to hunt down a pair of psychopaths. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4

LUCKY YOU by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf: $24) The battle for a winning lottery ticket pits a veterinarian against two lowlifes in a Florida town. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 4

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Knopf: $25) The life and love of a teahouse entertainer. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 5

VIOLIN by Anne Rice (Knopf: $25.95) A phantom violinist torments a grief-stricken widow. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 7

THE GHOST by Danielle Steel (Delacorte: $25.95) A heartbroken man finds solace in an ancient chateau haunted by an 18th century English countess. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

Nonfiction

MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL by John Berendt. (Random House: $24.) An assortment of outcasts and strange characters people this account of a sensational murder in an old Southern town. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 34

THE DARK SIDE OF CAMELOT by Seymour M. Hersh (Little, Brown: $26.95) How John F. Kennedy’s private life and personal obsessions affected the affairs of the nation. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 3

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $24) A bittersweet Irish childhood. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 58

INTO THIN AIR: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (Villard: $24) Tragedy on a mountaintop. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 32

THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger (Norton: $23.95) An account of fishermen trapped in the fury of a storm at sea. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 22

MAKING FACES by Kevyn Aucoin (Little, Brown: $29.95) Transforming today’s stars into yesterday’s starlets. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 4

THE MAN WHO LISTENS TO HORSES by Monty Roberts with Lucy Grealy (Random House: $23) Turning wild horses into pussycats. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 14

PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD by Joost Elffers (Stewart, Tabori & Chang: $19.95) A photographer craftily personifies vegetables and other edibles. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

TRUMP: The Art of the Comeback by Donald J. Trump with Kate Bohner (Times Books: $25.95) How to survive a billion-dollar slump and countless tabloid attacks and still feel good about yourself. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

CITIZEN SOLDIERS: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster: $27.50) The guts and glory of America’s front-line fighters. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 3

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. TOM CLANCY’S POWER PLAYS: Politika created by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg (Berkley: $7.50)

2. ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood (Anchor: $12)

3. LE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson (William Abrahams/Plume: $12.95)

4. PETALS ON THE RIVER by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (Avon: $12.50)

5. THE DARK TOWER IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (Penguin: $17.95)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

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

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

3. UNDAUNTED COURAGE by Stephen E. Ambrose (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: $16)

4. HELLO, HE LIED by Lynda Obst (Broadway Books: $13)

5. MY DARK PLACES by James Ellroy (Vintage: $14)

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