Fiction

Southern California ranking: [1] THE MOOR’S LAST SIGH by Salman Rushdie. (Pantheon: $25.) The rise and fall of a Portuguese family in India through four generations.

Last Week: 10

Week on List: 3

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Southern California ranking: [2] THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.) A beautiful journalist escapes New York to find love on the range in Montana.(1)

Last Week: 3

Week on List: 18

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Southern California ranking: [3] IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES by John Updike. (Knopf: $25.95.) The life choices of a 20th century American family as it wrestles with religious faith.

Last Week: 2

Week on List: 2

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Southern California ranking: [4] INTENSITY by Dean Koontz. (Knopf: $25.) The survivor of a killer tries to save his next intended victim.(9)

Last Week: 1

Week on List: 2

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Southern California ranking: [5] FIVE DAYS IN PARIS by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte: $15.95.) Business exec and senator’s wife remedy their boring lives back home with some “infidelite conjugale.”(3)

Last Week: 5

Week on List: 8

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Southern California ranking: [6] SHOCK WAVE by Clive Cussler. (Simon & Schuster: $25.) Adventurer Dirk Pitt fights an insane diamond miner bent on killing sea life in the Pacific.(4)

Last Week: 6

Week on List: 3

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Southern California ranking: [7] THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER by Jamaica Kincaid. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $20.) An orphaned West Indian woman rages against sexual and historical oppression.

Last Week: -

Week on List: 1

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Southern California ranking: [8] THE LOST WORLD by Michael Crichton. (Knopf: $25.95.) What’s extinction? Six years after Jurassic Park, and something has survived.(2)

Last Week: 9

Week on List: 16

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Southern California ranking: [9] THE WEB by Jonathan Kellerman. (Bantam: $23.95.) Alex Delaware vacations on a tiny island and faces the horrible secret of a wealthy scientist.(7)

Last Week: 7

Week on List: 2

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Southern California ranking: [10] THE CHRISTMAS BOX by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster: $12.95.) A young family learns the true meaning of Christmas.(5)

Last Week: 8

Week on List: 9

Nonfiction

Southern California ranking: [1] THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(2)

Last Week: 1

Week on List: 41

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Southern California ranking: [2] THE WAY OF THE WIZARD: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life by Deepak Chopra. (Crown/Harmony: $15.)(5)

Last Week: 3

Week on List: 3

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Southern California ranking: [3] MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, Ph.D. (HarperCollins: $23.) Interpreting relationships for Martians and Venusians.(1)

Last Week: 4

Week on List: 98

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Southern California ranking: [4] IT TAKES A VILLAGE: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster: $20.) Observations on the needs of children by the first lady.

Last Week: 6

Week on List: 2

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Southern California ranking: [5] RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT And Other Observations by Al Franken. (Delacorte: $21.95.) Wise guy solutions to government red tape and other parts of the political arena.

Last Week: -

Week on List: 1

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Southern California ranking: [6] EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by Daniel Goleman. (Bantam Doubleday Dell: $23.95.)(4)

Last Week: 7

Week on List: 15

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Southern California ranking: [7] THE ROAD AHEAD by Bill Gates. (Penguin: $29.95.) One tycoon’s vision of the computer future.(3)

Last Week: 2

Week on List: 7

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Southern California ranking: [8] MR. WILSON’S CABINET OF WONDER by Lawrence Weschler. (Pantheon: $21.) A look at the odd scientific world of the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Last Week: -

Week on List: 3

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Southern California ranking: [9] LONGITUDE by Dava Sobel. (Walker and Company: $18.) How the 18th century invention of the chronometer solved ocean navigation problems.(15)

Last Week: 8

Week on List: 4

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Southern California ranking: [10] MY AMERICAN JOURNEY by Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico. (Random House: $25.95.) The beginnings of an American hero.(7)

Last Week: 9

Week on List: 16

Rankings are based on The Times’ poll of local bookstores. National rankings (parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly. For information on Times bestsellers, call (213) 237-4336 after 11 a.m. on Wednesdays.

Paperbacks

FICTION

1. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson. (Vintage: $12.)

2. THE RAINMAKER by John Grisham. (Bantam: $7.99.)

3. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen. (Signet/NAL: $5.99.)

4. THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields. (Penguin: $10.95.)

5. WAITING TO EXHALE by Terry McMillan. (Pocket: $6.99.)

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NONFICTION

1. THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron. (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam: $13.95.)

2. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT GUIDE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

3. THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen R. Covey. (Fireside/Simon and Schuster: $12.)

4. CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL edited by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)

5. THE CALVIN AND HOBBES TENTH ANNIVERSARY BOOK by Bill Watterson. (Andrews & McMeel: $14.95.)

Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. For information on Times bestsellers, call (213) 237-4336 after 11 a.m. on Wednesdays.