Southern California Rating:FICTION1 BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX ...

Southern California Rating:

FICTION

1 BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX by Kurt Vonnegut (Putnam: $24.95) Twenty-four magazine stories, from the 1950s to the present, are collected here for the first time.

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 5

2 PERSONAL INJURIES by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27) Dirty lawyers, dirty judges and one equally soiled informant face off. Reviewed by Tom Nolan, Page 10.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

3 A STAR CALLED HENRY by Roddy Doyle (Viking: $24.95) A young lad is educated as a revolutionary during this century’s Irish rebellion against the British.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 2

4 HITLER’S NIECE by Ron Hansen (HarperCollins: $25) The fictionalized story of Geli Raubal, the only woman Hitler ever loved. Reviewed by Peter Green, Page 5.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

5 THE COMING OF THE NIGHT by John Rechy (Grove Press: $24) A day and night in the lives of hustlers and other outcasts looking for love on L.A.’s seamier side.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 3

6 WHITE OLEANDER by Janet Fitch (Little, Brown: $24) When a woman murders her lover, her daughter must learn to grow to womanhood in a foster home.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 22

7 THE LAMORNA WINK by Martha Grimes (Viking: $22.95) The 16th of Grimes’ Richard Jury series finds Jury off on a dead-end chase as Melrose Plants solves a mystery in Cornwall.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

8 THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $22) A haunting triptych of stories structured around Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway.”

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 26

9 TARA ROAD by Maeve Binchy (Delacorte: $24.95) People facing heartbreak and disappointment are drawn to a Victorian home on a shabby Dublin side street.

Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 13

10 BIG TROUBLE by Dave Barry (Putnam: 23.95) The male ego runs amok in the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist’s first novel, set in the fabled world of Miami’s vice.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

11 THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA by Stendhal; Translated from the French by Richard Howard (The Modern Library: $24.95) A new translation of love and war in the Napoleonic era.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

12 HEARTS IN ATLANTIS by Stephen King (Scribner: $28) Young people come of age in the shadow of the Vietnam War in this collection of linked stories.

Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3

13 THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING by Melissa Bank (Viking: $23.95) As a modern girl grows up looking for love, to whom should she turn?

Last Week: 15; Weeks on List: 19

14 THE HANDYMAN by Carolyn See (Random House: $22.95) The picaresque adventures of a $10-an-hour handyman, drifter and painter in L.A who fixes hearts as well as cabinets.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 8

15 IN PURSUIT OF THE PROPER SINNER by Elizabeth George (Bantam: $25.95) The discovery of two mutilated corpses kicks off the latest Lynley-Havers thriller.

Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 5

NONFICTION

1 ‘TIS by Frank McCourt (Scribner: $26) A young McCourt arrives from Ireland in New York, with all its peril and promise, in this sequel to “Angela’s Ashes.”

Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2

2 DUTCH by Edmund Morris (Random House: $35) This long-anticipated official biography of President Reagan features a fictionalized narrator.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

3 THE WAY WE LIVED THEN by Dominick Dunne (Crown: $27.50) A personal photo album and memoir of Hollywood by a self-proclaimed name-dropper.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

4 CHAVEZ RAVINE by Don Normark (Chronicle: $29.95) Photographs of a forgotten neighborhood in the L.A. hills that was uprooted in 1950 to build Dodger Stadium.

Last Week: 11; Weeks on List: 4

5 ANDY KAUFMAN REVEALED! by Bob Zmuda (Little, Brown: $24) Kaufman’s best friend shares stories and adventures of life with the “Taxi” player.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 2

6 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: 3; Weeks on List: 90

7 LEGACY by Christopher Ogden (Little, Brown: $29.95) The rags-to-riches-to-ruin-to-riches story of Moses Annenberg and his son, TV Guide founder Walter.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

8 FAITH OF MY FATHERS by John McCain (Random House: $25) A self-described hell-raiser, the Arizona senator rebelled in the U.S. Naval Academy but found maturity in Vietnam.

Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 4

9 STIFFED by Susan Faludi (William Morrow: $27.50) From Sylvester Stallone to the Spur Posse, a look at the plight of the American male.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

10 HITLER’S POPE by John Cornwell (Viking: $29.95) How Pius XII’s efforts at diplomacy helped sweep the Nazis into power. Reviewed by Saul Friedlander, Page 4.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

11 THE PLAY GOES ON by Neil Simon (Simon & Schuster: $27) A memoir of the second half of life by one of America’s most prolific playwrights.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

12 THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (Basic Books: $32.50) How a disillusioned KGB archivist turned over spy files to the British in 1992.

Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 2

13 A PLACE CALLED WACO by David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson (PublicAffairs: $25) A first-person account of the storming of the Branch Davidian compound.

Last Week: --; Weeks on List: 1

14 ISAAC’S STORM by Erik Larson (Crown: $25) The engrossing tale of a hurricane that slammed into Galveston in 1900 and of a weather forecaster heralded as a hero.

Last Week: 13; Weeks on List: 4

15 REASON FOR HOPE by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman (Warner Books: $26.95) Why a behavioral scientist known for her work with chimpanzees has not lost faith in humanity.

Last Week: 12; Weeks on List: 3

PAPERBACKS

FICTION

1 THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperPerennial: $14) A missionary family’s ordeals.

2 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden (Vintage: $14) The life and loves of a teahouse entertainer in Kyoto.

3 THE PILOT’S WIFE by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown: $13.95) A woman’s disturbing discoveries after a fatal plane crash.

4 WHEN THE WIND BLOWS by James Patterson (Warner Books: $7.99) Genetic experiments in the Colorado hinterlands.

5 THE LOOP by Nicholas Evans (Dell: $7.99) A pack of wolves is unleashed on a town called Hope (Montana).

6 THE READER by Bernhard Schlink (Vintage: $11) A boyhood fling with an older woman and its aftermath.

7 THE REEF by Nora Roberts (Jove: $7.50) A hunt for treasure in the balmy waters of the West Indies.

8 RAINBOW SIX by Tom Clancy (Berkley: $8.50) Handpicked secret agents use deadly force against terrorists.

9 SUMMER SISTERS by Judy Blume (Dell: $7.50) An unlikely friendship blossoms between two girls.

10 A BREACH OF PROMISE by Anne Perr y (Ivy: $6.99) A young woman sues her fiance for canceling the wedding.

PAPERBACKS

NONFICTION

1 ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt (Touchstone: $14) Overcoming an Irish childhood during the Depression.

2 THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN by Simon Winchester (HarperPerennial: $13) A madman with a flair for words.

3 THE BUST GUIDE TO THE NEW GIRL ORDER by Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller (Penguin: $15.95) A handbook for life.

4 SEAT OF THE SOUL by Gary Zukav (Fireside: $13) The inward transformation of the human soul.

5 THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC 2000 Edited by Judson Hale (Villard: $5.95) Weather forecasts, tide tables and more.

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

7 GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton: $14.95) The part played by this triad in history.

8 PURE DRIVEL by Steve Martin (Hyperion: $9.95) Humorous riffs and comical sketches on various topics.

9 THE GIFTS OF THE JEWS by Thomas Cahill (Anchor Books: $14) How a group of desert nomads changed the world.

10 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL by John Berendt (Vintage: $12) Portrait of Savannah’s colorful eccentrics.

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.