FICTIONPRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.)...

FICTION

PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.) A thinly veiled story of the 1992 Democratic primaries by a political insider a la Deep Throat.(1)*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 5

WHITE RABBIT by Kate Phillips. (Houghton Mifflin: $19.95.) A feisty octogenarian’s last day on earth.. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 2

ATTICUS by Ron Hansen. (Harper Collins: $22.) A father travels to Mexico to retrieve the body of his prodigal son.*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 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.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 23

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace. (Little, Brown & Co.: $29.95.)Obsessed consumers populate this satire of the near-future.(15). Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 3

THE POET by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown and Company: $22.95.) A crime reporter tracks a murderer who has outwitted law enforcement’s best investigators.*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 5

ABSOLUTE POWER by David Baldacci. (Warner: $22.95.) Murder among the elite in the nation’s capital.(3)*. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 2

IN THE CUT by Susanna Moore. (Knopf: $21.) An erotic thriller from the feminine point of view.. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 6

INTENSITY by Dean Koontz. (Knopf: $25.) The survivor of a killer tries to save the next victim.(4)*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 7

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.(12). Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 7

NOFICTION

YOU’LL NEVER MAKE LOVE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany. (Dove Books: $22.95.) The used, and their users, in Tinsel Town.(13). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 5

RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT And Other Observations by Al Franken. (Delacorte: $21.95.) Wise guy solutions to government complexities.(1)*. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 6

THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(4)*. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 46

MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, Ph.D. (HarperCollins: $23.)(2)* . Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 103

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.(3)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 7

SPIKE, MIKE, SLACKERS & DYKES: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema by John Pierson. (Hyperion/Miramax Books: $22.95.). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

THE WAY OF THE WIZARD: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life by Deepak Chopra. (Crown/Harmony: $15.)(6)*. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 8

HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! by Laura Schlessinger. (HarperCollins: $22.) The syndicated radio host looks at the perils of pleasure-seeking.(9)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 5

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by Daniel Goleman. (Bantam Doubleday Dell: $23.95.)(5)*. Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 19

UNDAUNTED COURAGE: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster: $30.). Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

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. SOPHIE’S WORLD: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder. (Berkley: $6.99.)

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

4. WONDER BOYS by Michael Chabon. (Picador USA: $13.)

5. THE PAPERBOY by Pete Dexter. (Random: $11.95.)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 L.A./SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT GUIDE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)

2. DEAD MAN WALKING by Helen Prejean. (Vintage: $12.)*

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

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

5. BEING DIGITAL by Nicholas Negroponte. (Vintage: $12.)*

* denotes books available in audio.