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PRIMARY COLORS by Anonymous. (Random House: $24.) A fictionalized account of the 1992 Democratic primaries by an insider.(1)*. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 11
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ENEMY by Elizabeth George. (Bantam: $23.95.) A journalist and a politico face the kidnappers of their love child.(2)*. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 3
MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster: $24.) Photographer seeks stepmother’s killer among Rhode Island’s elite families.. Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1
SPRING COLLECTION by Judith Krantz. (Crown: $24.) See review on Page 4. (5)*. Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 3
BODIES OF WATER by Rosanne Cash. (Hyperion: $19.95.) Autobiographical stories about divorce, parenthood and being the daughter of a music legend.. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1
THE HORSE WHISPERER by Nicholas Evans. (Delacorte Press: $23.95.) (7)*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 11
WHITE RABBIT by Kate Phillips. (Houghton Mifflin: $19.95.) A feisty octogenarian’s last day on earth.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 7
ATTICUS by Ron Hansen. (Harper Collins: $22.) A father travels to Mexico to retrieve the body of his prodigal son.*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 2
IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES by John Updike. (Knopf: $25.95.) (14). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 9
INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace. (Little, Brown & Co.: $29.95.) Obsessed consumers populate this satire of the near future.. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 9
Nonfiction
YOU’LL NEVER MAKE LOVE IN THIS TOWN AGAIN by Robin, Liza, Linda and Tiffany as told to Jennie Louise Frankel, Terrie Maxine Frankel and Joanne Parrent. (Dove Books: $22.95.) The used, and their users, in Tinseltown.. Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 11
THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE by Robert L. Shapiro with Larkin Warren. (Warner: $24.95.) Defending his position in the Simpson trial.*. Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1
IN CONTEMPT by Christopher Darden with Jess Walter. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $26.)A life well-acquainted with racism and civil rights leading up to the Simpson trial.(1). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 3
THE ZONE by Barry Sears with Bill Lawren. (HarperCollins/ReganBooks: $22.) An energy-building plan focusing on burning body fat.(14) . Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 5
BLOOD SPORT: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House by James B. Stewart. (Simon & Schuster: $25.) (2)*. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 4
THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing: $12.95.)(4)*. Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 52
HITLER’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. (Knopf: $30.) How anti-Semitism at all levels of society created the Holocaust.. Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1
THE WAY OF THE WIZARD: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life by Deepak Chopra. (Crown/Harmony: $15.)(5)*. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 9; Week on List: 14
UNDAUNTED COURAGE: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose. (Simon & Schuster: $30.)(7). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 5
MEN ARE FROM MARS: Women Are From Venus by John Gray, PhD. (HarperCollins: $23.)(3)*. Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: 8; Week on List: 109
Paperbacks: FICTION
1. THE GREEN MILE PART ONE: THE TWO DEAD GIRLS by Stephen King. (Signet: $2.99.)
2. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson. (Vintage: $12.)*
3. GOOSEBUMPS #42: EGG MONSTER FROM MARS by R.L. Stine. (Scholastic: $3.99.)
4. MOO by Jane Smiley. (Ballantine: $12.)*
5. LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler. (Fawcett: $12.)
Paperbacks: NONFICTION
1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1996 LOS ANGELES/SO. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANTS edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95.)
2. THERE’S TREASURE EVERYWHERE: A Calvin & Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson. (Andrews & McMeel: $12.95.)
3. MAKING MOVIES by Sidney Lumet. (Random: $12.)
4. CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL edited by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. (Health Communications: $12.95.)*
5. THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron. (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam: $13.95.)*
Rankings based on 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. Wednesdays.
* denotes books available in audio.
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